thunderstrike
verb · nounC1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Động từ
verb- 1.
(archaic, transitive)(transitive, now rare) To strike, blast, or injure by, or as if by, lightning.
1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 3, London: Henrie Fetherstone, Book 4, Chapter 9, § 1, p. 738, And such Warres haue made impressions into all our Neighbour Countries […] haue lightened on Turkie and blasted the Seraglio; haue thunder-stricken Barbarie, haue torne the Atlas there,
1717, Joseph Addison (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 2, “The Story of Phaeton,” p. 48, At once from Life, and from the Chariot driv’n, Th’ ambitious Boy fell Thunder-struck from Heav’n.
- 2.
(archaic, figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative, now rare) To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
The striking of lightning.
Nguồn gốc từ
From thunder + strike.