verb
- Move fast, noisily, and heavily.
- usage: "The bus thundered down the road"
- synonyms: thunder
- Utter words loudly and forcefully.
- usage: "`Get out of here,' he roared"
- Be the case that thunder is being heard.
- usage: "Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed"
- To make or produce a loud noise.
- usage: "The river thundered below"; "The engine roared as the driver pushed the car to full throttle"
- synonyms: thunder
adjective
- Sounding like thunder.
- usage: "the thundering herd"
- Extraordinarily big or impressive.
- usage: "a thundering success"; "the thundering silence of what was left unsaid"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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