📖 thunder
A Weather & Sky word — definition from our own bank
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thunder
noun1 senses
- street names for heroin
- a deep prolonged loud noise
- a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning
See also: big Hhell dustnose dropsscagskagsmackboomroar
verb2 senses
- utter words loudly and forcefully“`Get out of here,' he roared”
- to make or produce a loud noise“The river thundered below”
- move fast, noisily, and heavily“The bus thundered down the road”
- be the case that thunder is being heard“Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed”
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Where these words come from
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