Thundering

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thunder \Thun"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Thundered}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Thundering}.] [AS. [thorn]unrian. See {Thunder}, n.]
     1. To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a
        discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used
        impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.
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              Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? --Job xl.
                                                    9.
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     2. Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some
        continuance.
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              His dreadful voice no more
              Would thunder in my ears.             --Milton.
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     3. To utter violent denunciation.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thundering \Thun"der*ing\, a.
     1. Emitting thunder.
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              Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. --J.
                                                    Trumbull.
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     2. Very great; -- often adverbially. [Slang]
        [1913 Webster] -- {Thun"der*ing*ly}, adv.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thundering \Thun"der*ing\, n.
     Thunder. --Rev. iv. 5.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  thundering
       adj 1: sounding like thunder; "the thundering herd"
       2: extraordinarily big or impressive; "a thundering success";
          "the thundering silence of what was left unsaid"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "thundering":
     Donar, Indra, Jupiter Tonans, Thor, anathema, ban, banging,
     blasphemy, boom, booming, bumping, cannonading, commination, curse,
     damnation, deafening, deep, denunciation, dread rattling thunder,
     echo, echoic, echoing, evil eye, excommunication, execration,
     fulminating, fulmination, growl, growling, grumble, grumbling, hex,
     imprecation, intense, lingering, loud, malison, malocchio,
     peal of thunder, pealing, penetrating, persistent, piercing,
     proscription, pungent, reboant, reboation, rebound, rebounding,
     reecho, reechoing, reeking, repercussive, resound, resounding,
     reverberant, reverberating, reverberation, reverberatory, roaring,
     rolling, rumble, rumbling, slapping, sounding, spanking, thumping,
     thunder, thunderclap, thundercrack, thunderlike, thunderous,
     thunderpeal, thunderstorm, thunderstroke, thundery, tonitruant,
     tonitruous, undamped, volleying, walloping, whacking, whaling,
     whammy, whopping