thunder
/ˈθʌndɚ/ noun B1- The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt. · Thunder is preceded by lightning.· Thunder cracked overhead.
- A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder. · Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
- An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
- Synonym of thunder word.
Plural thunders
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The explosion, which had been so long restrained from a feeling of respect to the court of justice, now burst forth like thunder from the breasts of all present; the court itself did not seek to restrain the feelings of the audience.
The Lion became quite angry at the laughter caused by the Scarecrow’s mishap, and giving a loud roar that echoed like thunder, he dashed up the hill.
“How in thunder came you to know anything about it?” he asked.
Here is the mill with the humming of thunder,
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