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Answer for the clue "The flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash) ", 9 letters:
lightning

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lightning ( Jennifer Pierce ) is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics . A member of the Justice Society of America , she is the youngest daughter of Black Lightning and sister of the heroine Thunder . The current version of Lightning debuted in ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., present participle of lightnen "make bright," extended form of Old English lihting , from leht (see light (n.)). Meaning "cheap, raw whiskey" is attested from 1781, also sometimes "gin." Lightning bug is attested from 1778. Lightning rod from ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
electric current \electric current\, electrical current \electrical current\, the movement of electrically charged particles, atoms, or ions, through solids, liquids, gases, or free space; the term is usually used of relatively smooth movements of electric ...

Usage examples of lightning.

Again and again he had seen Castle Aldaran under siege, arrows flying, armed men striking, lightnings aflare and striking down on the keep.

Hector ranged on, now flaring along the front, now shouting his orders back toward the rear, all of him armed in bronze aflash like lightning flung by Father Zeus with his battle-shield of thunder.

Rostov threw his cloak over his shoulders, shouted to Lavrushka to follow with the things, and- now slipping in the mud, now splashing right through it- set off with Ilyin in the lessening rain and the darkness that was occasionally rent by distant lightning.

Mac Ard, and of the cold lightning that flared from it and the red-haired man.

An afternoon downpour could drop eight centimeters of warm rain, blow down two or three trees, and make the lightning arrestors dance, then wash away and leave the prison nearly as hot as before.

Lightning, like all authoritarian Judeo-Christian heresies, had its own share of this typically Occidental straight-line mystique, which was why even the Jews among them, like Zev Hirsch, accepted the symbol first suggested by Atlanta Hope: that most Euclidean of all religious emblems: the Cross.

Skirting around the lightning net to reach his foe, Kamahl found Talon at the ready, axes swinging in their hypnotic pattern from arm to arm.

Heu-Heu, or we are not killed by lightning, the Baas will let me drink some of that native beer when we get back to the town.

The lightning of divine wrath would flash from his eyes and small beadlets of thunder would drop from his brow.

Ollia Bekke poised tense and trembling, and with the first lick of blood-colored lightning from her Globe a slick of sweat shone on her brow.

Only when collision seemed inevitable did the German pilot lose his nerve and swerve, and Biggies whirled round on his tail in the lightning right-hand turn for which the Camel was famous.

The thief bleated as the lightning fast head stabbed, fishhook teeth clicking shut an inch from her face.

Billy formed the image of a bolt of lightning coming out of the sky, striking the Blimp, igniting the gas within.

When the griffins wearily leveled out, heads bent down between their spread wings, ready to soar or sideslip if the thing came for them, the blueness leaped into a long flash of azure light, rushing in zigzags underneath them faster even than lightning, and disappeared into the distance behind.

He suddenly remembered a song he had written years earlier, a bluesy little piece of braggadocio about having a lightning storm for a father.