noun
- A deep prolonged loud noise.
- A booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning.
- Street names for heroin.
verb
- Move fast, noisily, and heavily.
- usage: "The bus thundered down the road"
- Utter words loudly and forcefully.
- usage: "`Get out of here,' he roared"
- synonyms: roar
- Be the case that thunder is being heard.
- usage: "Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed"
- synonyms: boom
- To make or produce a loud noise.
- usage: "The river thundered below"; "The engine roared as the driver pushed the car to full throttle"
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