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THUNDERING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extraordinarily big or impressive
Example:
the thundering silence of what was left unsaid
Classified under:
Similar:
impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Sounding like thunder
Example:
the thundering herd
Classified under:
Similar:
noisy (full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb thunder
Context examples:
The captain had been struck dead by thundering apoplexy.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The sweet wind from Europe was still whispering in the refreshed leaves, and the Atlantic was thundering in glorious liberty; my heart, dried up and scorched for a long time, swelled to the tone, and filled with living blood—my being longed for renewal—my soul thirsted for a pure draught.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The foresail and fore-topsail, emptied of the wind by the manœuvre, and with no one to bring in the sheet in time, were thundering into ribbons, the heavy boom threshing and splintering from rail to rail.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Chesterton set the whole world laughing with a series of alleged non-partisan essays on the subject, and the whole affair, controversy and controversialists, was well-nigh swept into the pit by a thundering broadside from George Bernard Shaw.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“The proper life for a robber!” roared Hordle John, in his thundering voice.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Perhaps it was this—perhaps it was the look of the island, with its grey, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach—at least, although the sun shone bright and hot, and the shore birds were fishing and crying all around us, and you would have thought anyone would have been glad to get to land after being so long at sea, my heart sank, as the saying is, into my boots; and from the first look onward, I hated the very thought of Treasure Island.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
With his thick knotted arms, his thundering voice, and his bristle of red hair, there was something so repellent in the man that the three brothers flew back at the very glare of him; and the two rows of white monks strained away from him like poplars in a tempest.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
