Meaning

5 senses
  1. (impersonal)To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.

    It thundered continuously.

  2. (intransitive)To make a noise like thunder.

    The train thundered along the tracks.

    donnern, tschättere

    греме́тьgremétʹ, грохота́тьgroxotátʹ, громыха́тьgromyxátʹ

    гримі́тиhrymíty, гуркота́тиhurkotáty, гуркоті́тиhurkotíty

    to make or produce a loud noise

  3. (ergative)To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).

    move fast, noisily, and heavily

  4. (intransitive, transitive)To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.

    "Get back to work at once!", he thundered.

  5. To produce something with incredible power.

Examples

173 sentences
  1. After the lightning, came the thunder.

    Після блискавки загуркотів грім.

    ruВслед за молнией грянул гром.

    deNach dem Blitz kam der Donner.

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  2. The animals were scared by the thunder.

    Тварини були налякані грозою.

    ruЖивотные были напуганы громом.

    deDie Tiere fürchteten sich vor dem Donner.

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  3. Lightning normally accompanies thunder.

    Зазвичай, блискавка супроводиться громом.

    deDer Blitz wird normalerweise vom Donner begleitet.

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  4. The thunder scared the children.

    Гром налякав дітей.

    ruГром напугал детей.

    deDie Kinder hatten vor dem Donner Angst.

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  5. Lightning precedes thunder.

    Грім лунає після блискавки.

    ruМолния предшествует грому.

    deDer Blitz kommt vor dem Donner.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to make a noise like thunder:
Русский
By meaning 1
to make a noise like thunder:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to make a noise like thunder:

Origin

From Middle English thundren, from Old English þunrian (“to thunder”), from Proto-West Ger

From Middle English thundren, from Old English þunrian (“to thunder”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunrōn, from Proto-Germanic *þunrōną (“to thunder”).

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Forms

thunders, thundering, thundered, thundered
Base formthunder · to thunder
3rd person singularthunders
Present participlethundering
Past simplethundered
Past participlethundered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theythunder
he, she, itthunders

Past simpleLesson

all personsthundered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave thundered
he, she, ithas thundered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill thunder

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • utter words loudly and forcefully:roar
  • be the case that thunder is being heard:boom

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
thunder — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto