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thunderstriking en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (rare) Causing great amazement or shock.
    • The opening of territory to slavery […] was the arousing, astounding, thunderstriking event that brought Lincoln back into politics and lifted him to a new level of public moral argument. 2002, William Lee Miller, chapter 9, in Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography, New York: Knopf, pages 238–239:
    • He then took shelter from the rage that might be expected to follow such thunder-striking intelligence under the bed clothes, 1797, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 19, in Family Secrets: Literary and Domestic, volume 3, London: T.N. Longman, page 176:

Forms

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more thunderstriking Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most thunderstriking Degree=Sup lexicographic

Synonyms

mind-blowing · stupefying · devastating · astonishing · astounding

Translations (1)

fr foudroyant (causing great amazement or shock)

thunderstriking en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of thunderstrike