thunderbolt
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dərˌboʊlt noun
1.
a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
2.
an imaginary bolt or dart conceived as the material destructive agent cast to earth in a flash of lightning: the thunderbolts of Jove.
3.
something very destructive, terrible, severe, sudden, or startling.
4.
a person who acts with fury or with sudden and irresistible force.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a flash of lightning accompanying thunder |
| 2. | the imagined agency of destruction produced by a flash of lightning |
| 3. | See also Thor (in mythology) the destructive weapon wielded by several gods, esp the Greek god Zeus |
| 4. | something very startling |
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Example sentences
It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
He had escaped a thunderbolt, but he was still under a cloud.
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