📖 thunder

A Weather & Sky word — definition from our own bank

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thunder

noun1 senses

  1. street names for heroin
  2. a deep prolonged loud noise
  3. 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

  1. utter words loudly and forcefully“`Get out of here,' he roared”
  2. to make or produce a loud noise“The river thundered below”
  3. move fast, noisily, and heavily“The bus thundered down the road”
  4. be the case that thunder is being heard“Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed”

See also: roarboom

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