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
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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
He had fallen as if thunderstricken on the Place du Château d'Eau.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
I had hardly heard them when Millière fell as if thunderstricken.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
The aghast and thunderstricken philosophers remained gazing at each other for a moment.
From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett
Arvina, trembling with the deep consciousness of hospitality betrayed, and feeling the first stings of remorse already, stood thunderstricken, and unable to articulate.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert
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 Hesba Stretton
As if thunderstruck, Leontes becomes irredeemably convinced that Polixenes’ acquiescence reveals an adulterous relationship between the two.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
More than 90 million Americans watched, thunderstruck, as TV helicopters provided live shots of the action.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
And I’m really thunderstruck at the number of people who are shocked, shocked.
From Slate ● May 7, 2022
But he was "thunderstruck" when he heard the library faced closure.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2021
She seemed thunderstruck by what she saw, drawn to the image yet unable to touch it.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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