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/θˈəndərstrˌək/ Listen

verb

Thunderstrike v. t. (past thunderstruck; past part. thunderstruck, thunderstrucken; pres. part. thunderstriking)

To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. (R.)

To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; rarely used except in the past participle. "drove before him, thunderstruck."

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Etymology of 'Thunderstruck'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thunderstruck" Quotes from Famous Books

... being called at a quarter past six, and generally managing to be down soon after seven. In the present instance I had been up the night before till about half-past twelve, and consequently when I was called I fell asleep again, and was thunderstruck to find on waking that it was ten minutes past eight. I have had no imposition, nor heard anything about it. It is rather vexatious to have happened so soon, as I had ...

— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll • Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

... thunderstruck on hearing Emilia refuse to go to Italy. A scene of tragic denunciation on the one hand, and stubborn ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... He was startled, thunderstruck. He never had foreseen that such a catastrophe could occur, nor had the least suspicion that anything had passed between his daughter and M. Larinski. Of all the ideas that had suggested themselves to him, this seemed the least admissible, the most improbable ...

— Samuel Brohl & Company • Victor Cherbuliez

... Max was thunderstruck. He had never expected anything like this. That Belgium, peace-loving Belgium, with her neutrality guaranteed by practically all the great civilized Powers, should, in spite of it, be about to be forced into a great European war had seemed unthinkable. Yet so it ...

— Two Daring Young Patriots - or, Outwitting the Huns • W. P. Shervill

... the torrent below, it required a considerable amount of confidence to enable one to traverse it successfully. From the scarcity of the population, I had great difficulty in finding anybody to procure me a drink of milk, and when I at last discovered a woman and two children, she was so thunderstruck that, catching up one of her offspring in her arms and shrieking to another to follow her, like a hen and chickens swooped at by a hawk, away they went as fast as their legs would carry them. As this was no satisfaction to me, however productive it might be of milk ...

— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight

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