thunder

thunder
    n 1: a deep prolonged loud noise [syn: {boom}, {roar},
         {roaring}, {thunder}]
    2: a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the
       path of a bolt of lightning
    3: street names for heroin [syn: {big H}, {hell dust}, {nose
       drops}, {smack}, {thunder}, {skag}, {scag}]
    v 1: move fast, noisily, and heavily; "The bus thundered down
         the road"
    2: utter words loudly and forcefully; "`Get out of here,' he
       roared" [syn: {thunder}, {roar}]
    3: be the case that thunder is being heard; "Whenever it
       thunders, my dog crawls under the bed" [syn: {thunder},
       {boom}]
    4: to make or produce a loud noise; "The river thundered below";
       "The engine roared as the driver pushed the car to full
       throttle"
    

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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Thunder \Thun"der\, n. [OE. [thorn]under, [thorn]onder,
   [thorn]oner, AS. [thorn]unor; akin to [thorn]unian to
   stretch, to thunder, D. donder thunder, G. donner, OHG.
   donar, Icel. [thorn][=o]rr Thor, L. tonare to thunder,
   tonitrus thunder, Gr. to`nos a stretching, straining, Skr.
   tan to stretch. [root]52. See {Thin}, and cf. {Astonish},
   {Detonate}, {Intone}, {Thursday}, {Tone}.]
   1. The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report
      of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
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   2. The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt. [Obs.]
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            The revenging gods
            'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.
                                                  --Shak.
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   3. Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.
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   4. An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
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            The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike
            into the heart of princes.            --Prescott.
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   {Thunder pumper}. (Zool.)
      (a) The croaker ({Haploidontus grunniens}).
      (b) The American bittern or stake-driver.

   {Thunder rod}, a lightning rod. [R.]

   {Thunder snake}. (Zool.)
      (a) The chicken, or milk, snake.
      (b) A small reddish ground snake ({Carphophis amoena} syn.
          {Celuta amoena}) native to the Eastern United States;
          -- called also {worm snake}.

   {Thunder tube}, a fulgurite. See {Fulgurite}.
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Thunder \Thun"der\, v. t.
   To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to
   publish, as a threat or denunciation.
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         Oracles severe
         Were daily thundered in our general's ear. --Dryden.
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         An archdeacon, as being a prelate, may thunder out an
         ecclesiastical censure.                  --Ayliffe.
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Thunder
often referred to in Scripture (Job 40:9; Ps. 77:18; 104:7).
James and John were called by our Lord "sons of thunder" (Mark
3:17). In Job 39:19, instead of "thunder," as in the Authorized
Version, the Revised Version translates (ra'amah) by "quivering
main" (marg., "shaking"). Thunder accompanied the giving of the
law at Sinai (Ex. 19:16). It was regarded as the voice of God
(Job 37:2; Ps. 18:13; 81:7; comp. John 12:29). In answer to
Samuel's prayer (1 Sam. 12:17, 18), God sent thunder, and "all
the people greatly feared," for at such a season (the
wheat-harvest) thunder and rain were almost unknown in
Palestine.
    

178 Moby Thesaurus words for "thunder":
      Bedlam let loose, Donar, Indra, Jupiter Tonans, Thor,
      awake the dead, bark, bawl, bedlam, bellow, blare, blare forth,
      blast, blast the ear, blat, blaze, blaze abroad, blazon,
      blazon about, blubber, bobbery, boom, booming, brawl, bray,
      breathe, brouhaha, buzz, cackle, celebrate, chant, charivari,
      chirm, chirp, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter, commotion, coo,
      crack, cracking, crash, crashing, crescendo, crow, cry, cry out,
      deafen, declaim, deep, denounce, din, discord, donnybrook, drawl,
      dread rattling thunder, drunken brawl, dustup, echo, exclaim,
      execrate, explode, explosion, fill the air, flap, flute, fracas,
      free-for-all, fulminate against, fulmination, gasp, growl,
      growling, grumble, grumbling, grunt, hell broke loose, herald,
      herald abroad, hiss, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo,
      intimidate, jangle, keen, lilt, loud noise, menace, mumble, murmur,
      mutter, noise, noise and shouting, outcry, pandemonium, pant, peal,
      peal of thunder, pealing, pipe, proclaim, promulgate, racket,
      rail at, rattle, rattle the windows, reboation, rebound, reecho,
      rend the air, rend the ears, resound, resounding, reverberate,
      reverberation, rhubarb, ring, rise, roar, roaring, rock the sky,
      roll, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumbling, rumpus, scream,
      screech, shindy, shivaree, shout, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing,
      snap, snarl, snort, sob, split the eardrums, split the ears,
      squall, squawk, squeal, startle the echoes, stun, surge, swear at,
      swell, threaten, thunder forth, thunderclap, thundercrack,
      thundering, thunderpeal, thundershower, thundersquall,
      thunderstorm, thunderstroke, tintamarre, trumpet, trumpet forth,
      tumult, twang, uproar, wail, warble, whine, whisper, yap, yawp,
      yell, yelp