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thunderstrike, v.|ˈθʌndəstraɪk|
Pa. tense and pple. thunderstruck (see also prec. and thunderstruck).
[prob. a back-formation from thunderstricken, that being taken as a pa. pple.]
1. trans. (lit.) To strike with ‘thunder’ or lightning (cf. thunder n. 1 b). ? Obs.
1613Heywood Brazen Age iv. Wks. 1874 III. 232 My father [Jove]..startles vp to thunder-strike the lad [Phaeton]. 1666T. Neale in Phil. Trans. I. 247 The Account..by the learned Dr. Charleton, concerning the boy that was Thunder⁓struck near Nantwich in Cheshire. 1710W. King Heathen Gods & Heroes liv. (1722) 186 Charybdis..was Thunder-struck by Jupiter, and transformed into a Sea-Monster. a1711Ken Christophil Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 442 Angels..Expected when Almighty Ire Shou'd Thunder-strike our guilty Sire. 1902Greenough & Kittredge Words 309 ‘Astonish’ is literally ‘to thunderstrike’, and was once common in the physical sense of ‘stun’.
2. fig. To strike as with ‘thunder’.
a. To strike with amazement, astonish greatly. Obs. exc. as in thunderstricken, thunderstruck.
1613–[see thunderstruck 2 a]. 1721G. Roussillon tr. Vertot's Rev. Portugal 104 This message thunder-struck the Duke. 1789M. Nuber Let. in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1861) II. 324 This revolution thunder-strikes the keenest man. 1807Southey Espriella's Lett. III. 183 The news..thunderstruck all present.
b. To inflict severe or terrible vengeance, reproof, or the like, upon. In quot. 1818 in physical sense, to batter severely.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 71 He had..thunder struck him, with a storme of mighty words. 1650Trapp Comm. Exod. xix. 16 To terrifie and thunder-strike offenders. 1699Cibber Xerxes v, To Thunder-strike thy Soul. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. clxxxi, The armaments which thunderstrike the walls. |