thunderstriking

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English

Verb

thunderstriking

  1. present participle and gerund of thunderstrike

Adjective

thunderstriking (comparative more thunderstriking, superlative most thunderstriking)

  1. (rare) Causing great amazement or shock.
    Synonyms: astonishing, astounding, devastating, mind-blowing, stupefying
    • 1797, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 19, in Family Secrets: Literary and Domestic‎, volume 3, London: T.N. Longman, page 176:
      He then took shelter from the rage that might be expected to follow such thunder-striking intelligence under the bed clothes,
    • 2002, William Lee Miller, chapter 9, in Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography‎, New York: Knopf, pages 238–239:
      The opening of territory to slavery […] was the arousing, astounding, thunderstriking event that brought Lincoln back into politics and lifted him to a new level of public moral argument.

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