thunder
verb/ˈθʌndə(r)/
/ˈθʌndər/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they thunder | /ˈθʌndə(r)/ /ˈθʌndər/ |
| he / she / it thunders | /ˈθʌndəz/ /ˈθʌndərz/ |
| past simple thundered | /ˈθʌndəd/ /ˈθʌndərd/ |
| past participle thundered | /ˈθʌndəd/ /ˈθʌndərd/ |
| -ing form thundering | /ˈθʌndərɪŋ/ /ˈθʌndərɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] when it thunders, there is a loud noise in the sky during a stormTopics Weatherc1
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- [intransitive] to make a very loud, deep noise synonym roar
- A voice thundered in my ear.
- thundering traffic
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. to move very fast and with a loud deep noise synonym roar
- Heavy trucks kept thundering past.
- The horse raced across the pasture, its hooves thundering on the grass.
- [transitive] thunder something + adv./prep. (informal) (especially in sport) to make something move somewhere very fast
- Essien thundered the ball past the goalie.
- [intransitive, transitive] (literary) to shout, complain, etc. very loudly and angrily
- thunder (something) He thundered against the evils of television.
- + speech ‘Sit still!’ she thundered.
Word OriginOld English thunor (noun), thunrian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch donder and German Donner (noun), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin tonare ‘to thunder’.
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