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English
Etymology
From thunder + shock.
Noun
thundershock (plural thundershocks)
- A sudden burst of thunder, a thunderclap; any similarly loud and sudden noise; a sudden, severe shock.
1851, William Dana Emerson, The Old Town Clock: Occasional Thoughts, in Verse, page 97:The old Town Clock, / Like a distant thundershock, / Heard and gone, / Striking One!
1895, William Taylor, Story of my Life, page 158:The disappointment of some was almost like a thundershock.
1962, Louis Hadley Evans, Your Marriage: Duel Or Duet?, page 13:Every time a home is destroyed, the whole nation suffers a severe thundershock.
1989, R. G. Prinn, B. Fegley, Jr., “Solar Nebula Chemistry: Origin of Planetary, Satellite and Cometary Volatiles”, in S. K. Atreya, James B. Pollack, Mildred Shapley Matthews, editors, Origin and Evolution of Planetary and Satellite Atmospheres, page 86:The simultaneous presence of fluid motions and abundant particles in the solar nebula make charge separation (and hence lightning discharges and their accompanying thundershocks) a likely but at the present time speculative phenomenon.
2011, Sergio Troncoso, From This Wicked Patch of Dust, page 63:Reading about the life of St. Francis of Assisi had sent a thundershock to Julia's psyche.
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