thundering
Origin of thundering
thunder
- a loud, explosive, resounding noise produced by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning discharge.
- any loud, resounding noise: the thunder of applause.
- a threatening or startling utterance, denunciation, or the like.
- to give forth thunder (often used impersonally with it as the subject): It thundered last night.
- to make a loud, resounding noise like thunder: The artillery thundered in the hills.
- to utter loud or vehement denunciations, threats, or the like.
- to speak in a very loud tone.
- to move or go with a loud noise or violent action: The train thundered through the village.
- to strike, drive, inflict, give forth, etc., with loud noise or violent action.
- steal someone's thunder,
- to use for one's own purposes and without the knowledge or permission of the originator the inventions or ideas of another.
- to ruin or detract from the effect of a performance, remark, etc., by anticipating it.
Origin of thunder
Related Words for thundering
roar, rumble, resound, reverberate, growl, explode, drum, detonate, peal, storm, crack, clamor, blast, clap, deafen, declaim, bellow, rail, fulminate, denounceExamples from the Web for thundering
Contemporary Examples of thundering
The beasts are huge, hulking, fast and unpredictable—tons of muscle, horn and thundering hooves.
John McCain voted for federal funding in 2007, thundering about thousands of frozen embryos.
Historical Examples of thundering
Here the conversation was interrupted by a thundering knock at the door.
Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
What's anybody's motive, who figures in this thundering dime-novel?
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
Even as he stormed the ticket-grating, the train was thundering in at the platform.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
Her mother gave one snort, and away she went, thundering after her.
Ranald Bannerman's BoyhoodGeorge MacDonald
Thundering to the harbor, the Cunarder now moved slowly out.
The HarborErnest Poole
thundering
- (prenominal) slang very great or excessivea thundering idiot
thunder
- a loud cracking or deep rumbling noise caused by the rapid expansion of atmospheric gases which are suddenly heated by lightning
- any loud booming sound
- rare a violent threat or denunciation
- steal someone's thunder to detract from the attention due to another by forestalling him or her
- to make (a loud sound) or utter (words) in a manner suggesting thunder
- (intr; with it as subject) to be the case that thunder is being heard
- (intr) to move fast and heavilythe bus thundered downhill
- (intr) to utter vehement threats or denunciation; rail
Word Origin for thunder
Word Origin and History for thundering
thunder
Old English þunor, from Proto-Germanic *thunraz (cf. Old Norse þorr, Old Frisian thuner, Middle Dutch donre, Dutch donder, Old High German donar, German Donner "thunder"), from PIE *(s)tene- "to resound, thunder" (cf. Sanskrit tanayitnuh "thundering," Persian tundar "thunder," Latin tonare "to thunder"). Swedish tordön is literally "Thor's din." The intrusive -d- is also found in Dutch and Icelandic versions of the word.
thunder
Old English þunrian, from the source of thunder (n.). Figurative sense of "to speak loudly, threateningly, bombastically" is recorded from mid-14c. Related: Thundered; thundering.
thunder
- The explosive noise that accompanies a stroke of lightning. Thunder is a series of sound waves produced by the rapid expansion of the air through which the lightning passes. Sound travels about 1 km in 3 seconds (about 1 mi in 5 seconds). The distance between an observer and a lightning flash can be calculated by counting the number of seconds between the flash and the thunder. See Note at lightning.
thunder
The noise created when air rushes back into a region from which it has been expelled by the passage of lightning.
Idioms and Phrases with thundering
thunder
see under steal someone's thunder.