English English Dictionary

The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.

The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.

Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.

An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.

To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.

Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.

To utter violent denunciation.

To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.