foudroyé

French

Participle

foudroyé (feminine foudroyée, masculine plural foudroyés, feminine plural foudroyées)

  1. past participle of foudroyer

Adjective

foudroyé (feminine foudroyée, masculine plural foudroyés, feminine plural foudroyées)

  1. thunderstruck
    • 1862, Victor Hugo, “IV. Les deux devoirs : veiller et espérer”, in Les Misérables, 4e partie. Idylle et épopée; Livre septième. L'argot, Belgium: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie.:
      On meurt miné aussi bien que foudroyé.
      One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by lightning.
  2. blasted, devastated

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