thunderstrike
Americanverb (used with object)
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Archaic. to strike with a thunderbolt.
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to astonish; dumfound.
Etymology
Origin of thunderstrike
1605–15; probably back formation from earlier thunderstricken (adj.); see thunder, strike
Example Sentences
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Meet Flora, travel with her, play the hypocrite, with smiles on my lips and hell in my heart,--or thunderstrike her at once with the truth;--what was I to do?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various
I had hardly heard them when Millière fell as if thunderstricken.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
Louis, thunderstricken, could scarcely believe his own eyes.
From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883
They stood in the doorway, as much astonished and thunderstricken as I was, glaring at me, so it seemed to me, with that soft, bright-brown lock of hair curling and clinging round my finger.
From The Doctor's Dilemma by Stretton, Hesba
"You shall never have another word in mine!" said the thunderstricken Julia to herself.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
I have even read that various persons have found themselves under toxicological symptoms, and, as it were, thunderstricken by black-pudding that had been subjected to a too vehement fumigation.
From Madame Bovary by Aveling, Eleanor Marx
The cuts were to go into effect three days later, leaving grant recipients thunderstruck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
More than 90 million Americans watched, thunderstruck, as TV helicopters provided live shots of the action.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
But he was "thunderstruck" when he heard the library faced closure.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2021
The large, raucous crowd that had been following DeChambeau seemed thunderstruck.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
Harry saw, with enormous satisfaction, that the Slytherin team were all looking thunderstruck.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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