Thunderstrike

Quick meaning: Thunderstrike is a verb meaning (transitive, now rare) To strike, blast, or injure by, or as if by, lightning.

Meaning

(transitive, now rare) To strike, blast, or injure by, or as if by, lightning.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, figurative, now rare) To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible.
2. The striking of lightning.

Example Sentences

The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake,

[They] Seat God in the Clouds, and imagine his hands to be Employed, in opening and shutting the Cloisters of the Winds, in sprinkling the Flowers with dews, and thunder-striking the Tops of Mountains;

[…] some terrible bombarder of tearmes, as wilde as wildfire, that at the first flash of his fury, would leaue me thunder-stricken vpon the ground, or at the last volley of his outrage, would batter me to dust, and ashes.

1717, Joseph Addison (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 2, “The Story of Phaeton,” p. 48, At once from Life, and from the Chariot driv’n, Th’ ambitious Boy fell Thunder-struck from Heav’n.

Word Forms

• thunderstrikes
• thunderstriking
• thunderstruck
• thunderstricken

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fulminate, firebolt, thunder, bolt, overstrike, strike.

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