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thundershock en · NOUN

Etymology

From thunder + shock.

Meanings

1. A sudden burst of thunder, a thunderclap; any similarly loud and sudden noise; a sudden, severe shock.
   • Reading about the life of St. Francis of Assisi had sent a thundershock to Julia's psyche. 2011, Sergio Troncoso, From This Wicked Patch of Dust, page 63:
   • The old Town Clock, / Like a distant thundershock, / Heard and gone, / Striking One! 1851, William Dana Emerson, The Old Town Clock: Occasional Thoughts, in Verse, page 97:
   • The simultaneous presence of fluid motions and abundant particles in the solar nebula make charge separation (and hence lightning discharges and their accompanying thundershocks) a likely but at the present time speculative phenomenon. 1989, R. G. Prinn; B. Fegley, Jr., “Solar Nebula Chemistry: Origin of Planetary, Satellite and Cometary Volatiles”, in S. K. Atreya, James B. Pollack, Mildred Shapley Matthews, editors, Origin and Evolution of Planetary and Satellite Atmospheres, page 86:
   • The disappointment of some was almost like a thundershock. 1895, William Taylor, Story of my Life, page 158:
   • Every time a home is destroyed, the whole nation suffers a severe thundershock. 1962, Louis Hadley Evans, Your Marriage: Duel Or Duet?, page 13:

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Relateds

thunderbolt