noun
Meaning 1
The striking of lightning.
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Standard Lemma guide
thunderstrike
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verb
Meaning 2
To strike, blast, or injure by, or as if by, lightning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
Examples
- 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 3, London: Henrie Fetherstone, Book 4, Chapter 9, § 1, p. 738, And such Warres haue made impressions into all our Neighbour Countries [...] haue lightened on Turkie and blasted the Seraglio; haue thunder-stricken Barbarie, haue torne the Atlas there,
- 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.
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verb
Meaning 3
To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, figuratively, transitive
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History
Etymology
From thunder + strike.
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: foudroyer — strike with lightning
- French: foudroyer — astonish or strike dumb