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Thunder

/ˈθʌndə/

The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.

📖 Definitions of "Thunder"

noun
  1. 1

    The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.

    "Thunder is preceded by lightning."

  2. 2

    A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.

    "Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede."

  3. 3

    An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.

  4. 4

    The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.

verb
  1. 1

    To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally.

    "It thundered continuously."

  2. 2

    To make a noise like thunder.

    "The train thundered along the tracks."

  3. 3

    To talk with a loud, threatening voice.

  4. 4

    To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.

    ""Get back to work at once!", he thundered."

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