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Thundered

Thunder \Thun"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Thundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Thundering.] [AS. [thorn]unrian. See Thunder, n.]

  1. To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.

    Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
    --Job xl. 9.

  2. Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.

    His dreadful voice no more Would thunder in my ears.
    --Milton.

  3. To utter violent denunciation.

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thundered

vb. (en-past of: thunder)

Usage examples of "thundered".

Presently fifty of the mightiest nobles of the greatest courts of Mars marched down the broad Aisle of Hope bearing a splendid car upon their shoulders, and as the people saw who sat within, the cheers that had rung out for me paled into insignificance beside those which thundered through the vast edifice now, for she whom the nobles carried was Dejah Thoris, beloved Princess of Helium.

They charged him in a concerted assault, and they died in the space of a second as the Hombres thundered and belched lead.

Both revolvers thundered once, and the Vampires gripping Thunder and Athena were each struck in the forehead and flung backwards.

Hurricane banked and thundered higher into the azure sky, while to its rear the headquarters building exploded, sending a monumental fireball thousands of feet skyward.

The bastions of the storm, when through the sky The spirits of the tempest thundered by: 49.

Headlong OB its course it thundered until its low-hung head crashed into a gigantic tree in its path.

It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot.

Directly before me the river thundered down from above in a mighty waterfall that filled the narrow gorge from side to side, rising far above me several hundred feet--as magnificent a spectacle as I ever had seen.

Up the cave I went, and after me came the others, and after them thundered the whole crowd of cannibals, mad with fury at the death of the woman.

On came the crashing, rolling noise, and the sound of it was as the sound of a forest being swept flat by a mighty wind, and then tossed up like so much grass, and thundered down a mountain-side.

I did so, the flaming pillar slowly twisted and thundered off whithersoever it passes to in the bowels of the great earth, leaving Ayesha standing where it had been.

Titanic echoes thundered, shrieked, and wailed in every conceivable tone.

Great billows thundered against the reef with such violence that they probably passed entirely over the islet, then quite invisible.

They were simply the last traces left by the torrent which had so long thundered through this cavity, and the air there was pure though slightly damp, but producing no mephitic exhalation.

At times it almost seemed as if an under-current raised these monstrous billows which thundered against the wall of Granite House.