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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. Many of the princes found it difficult to conceal their admiration; even the emperor exclaimed, "This monk speaks with an intrepid heart and unshaken courage." Truly he did. This is the weakness of God, which is stronger than man. God had brought together these kings ...

— Count Ulrich of Lindburg - A Tale of the Reformation in Germany • W.H.G. Kingston

... wedding-ring. Edward shuddered: he snatched it from the servant's hand, and the color forsook his cheeks as he read the two words "Emily Varnier" engraved inside the hoop. He stood there like one thunderstruck, as pale as a corpse, with the proof in his hand that he had not merely dreamed, but had actually spoken with the spirit of his friend. A servant of the household came in to ask whether the Lieutenant wished to breakfast ...

— International Weekly Miscellany, Vol. I, No. 6 - Of Literature, Art, And Science, New York, August 5, 1850 • Various

... one could have looked for from her heavy and bulky figure, Martina hastily returned to her husband, and even at the door exclaimed: "It is all right, all has gone well! At the sight of her he seemed thunderstruck! Mark my words: we shall have a ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... Hereward was thunderstruck at this apparition. The dress was neither Grecian, Italian, nor of the costume of the Franks;—it was Saxon!—connected by a thousand tender remembrances with Hereward's childhood and youth. The circumstance was most extraordinary. Saxon women, indeed, there were in Constantinople, ...

— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

... labels too; But neither wax nor words. How, thunderstruck! Is this your precious evidence? Is this that ...

— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 • Various

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