Dictionary entry

Thunder (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Thun″der (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Thundered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Thundering.] [AS. þunrian. See Thunder, n.] 1. To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; — often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.

Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Job xl. 9.

2. Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.

His dreadful voice no more

Would thunder in my ears. Milton.

3. To utter violent denunciation.