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thunderstruck
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I was thunderstruck to find out he had been lying the whole time. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ By all accounts he was thunderstruck when he received it. ▪ Contrary to popular myth Darwin was not thunderstruck by the theory ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Thunderstruck " is the lead single on the 1990 album The Razors Edge by Australian hard rock band AC/DC . The song was released as a single in Germany , Australia , and Japan , and peaked at No. 5 on U.S. the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks . In ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise; "a circle of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accident"; "the flabbergasted aldermen were speechless"; "was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion" [syn: dumbfounded ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from thunder (n.) + struck . Originally figurative; the literal sense (1630s) always has been rare. Thunder-strike (v.), is a back-formation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thunderstrike \Thun"der*strike`\, v. t. [imp. Thunderstruck ; p. p. Thunderstruck , -strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Thunderstriking .] To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. [R.] --Sir P. Sidney. To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something ...
Usage examples of thunderstruck.
I was thunderstruck, and if I had been still in love, this antidote would have been sufficiently powerful to cure me instanter.
I was thunderstruck at the impudence of the fellow, who, after imposing on me so long, had himself put me in a position to discover his deceit.
Thunderstruck, Nev watched her go, and the men with him muttered warning comments.
Daulo with his mouth hanging open, Akim only marginally less thunderstruck.
Doctor Fearnaught, watching all this thunderstruck from where he sat, suddenly stood up.
He leaped and came to Katya to take Leonid from her, hurrying the pilot out the door, past thunderstruck Ivan.
Pyramids of Egypt, the marketplace in old Tangiers, maybe an island off the coast of Formosa, or Turtleback Lane in Lovell on a thunderstruck afternoon in the summer of 1977.
Dick Varley stood for a few seconds as if thunderstruck, while the bear stood hissing at him.
I was thunderstruck at the impudence of the fellow, who, after imposing on me so long, had himself put me in a position to discover his deceit.
Threw myself on the back of Bluegrass Prince and snatched loose the reins from a thunderstruck groom and was away.
I set myself to answer it, and was almost thunderstruck to find the task, for the first time, a painful one.
Memmo was thunderstruck (for a Venetian noble conversing with a foreign ambassador becomes guilty of treason to the state), and ran in hot haste from Ancilla's room, I after him, but on the stair he met the ambassador, who, seeing his distress, burst into a laugh, and passed on.
I gave her the word, which belonged to no language that I know of, and the marchioness was quite thunderstruck.
The singer touched his forehead in salute to the boy as he hurried to the crowd, having mistaken Jimmys astonishment at Carlines and Martins remarks for his being thunderstruck by the Princesss beauty.
The hideous creature rushed at them, bowling over the thunderstruck Tynian and falling on Bevier, clawing and biting at his armour.