1. Noun
The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
2. Noun
The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
3. Noun
Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.
4. Noun
An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
5. Noun
To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.
6. Noun
Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.
7. Noun
To utter violent denunciation.
8. Verb
To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.
9. Verb
move fast, noisily, and heavily; "The bus thundered down the road"
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