Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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adj
Both melodramatically violent and aggressive; characterized by anger, or forthright ideas and expression.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially, not-comparable
Qualifier: action
Topics: fiction, literature, media, publishing
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intj
Expressing anger or exasperation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, rare
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noun
Violent action and language, especially of a melodramatic kind, or the representation of this, or an aggressive or bad-tempered physical confrontation, typically in a sporting context.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A work of fiction featuring or characterized by bloodshed and violence; a sensationally violent story, drama, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
blood (noun) + and (conjunction) + thunder (noun). First attested in 1696.
