thunderbolt

1. A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.

   a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder

2. (figuratively)An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.

   News of the actress’s death came as a thunderbolt to her fans.

   гром среди́ я́сного не́баgrom sredí jásnovo néba

3. Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.

4. A very powerful shot.

5. A belemnite, or thunderstone.

6. A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.

   Donnerkeil, Blitzstrahl, Blitz mit Donnerschlag

   уда́р мо́лнииudár mólnii, перу́нperún

7. A daring or irresistible hero.

1. A thunderbolt is likely to fall any minute.

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2. They say the gods smite evil with thunderbolts.

   deEs heißt, die Götter schlügen das Böse mit Blitzen. — Yorwba

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3. The living call for me, the dead weep for me, the thunderbolts break me.

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4. My grandfather believes he would be killed by a thunderbolt if he committed adultery.

   deMein Großvater glaubt, dass er vom Blitz erschlagen würde, wenn er Ehebruch begehen würde. — Sciuro_Kvar

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5. The thunderbolt split the oak.

   deDer Blitz spaltete die Eiche. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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