thundershock

English

Etymology

thunder +‎ shock

Noun

thundershock (plural thundershocks)

  1. A sudden burst of thunder, a thunderclap; any similarly loud and sudden noise; a sudden, severe shock.
    • 1851, William Dana Emerson, The Old Town Clock: Occasional Thoughts, in Verse, page 97:
      The old Town Clock, / Like a distant thundershock, / Heard and gone, / Striking One!
    • 1895, William Taylor, Story of my Life‎, page 158:
      The disappointment of some was almost like a thundershock.
    • 1962, Louis Hadley Evans, Your Marriage: Duel Or Duet?‎, page 13:
      Every time a home is destroyed, the whole nation suffers a severe thundershock.
    • 1989, R. G. Prinn, B. Fegley, Jr., “Solar Nebula Chemistry: Origin of Planetary, Satellite and Cometary Volatiles”, in S. K. Atreya, James B. Pollack, Mildred Shapley Matthews, editors, Origin and Evolution of Planetary and Satellite Atmospheres, page 86:
      The simultaneous presence of fluid motions and abundant particles in the solar nebula make charge separation (and hence lightning discharges and their accompanying thundershocks) a likely but at the present time speculative phenomenon.
    • 2011, Sergio Troncoso, From This Wicked Patch of Dust‎, page 63:
      Reading about the life of St. Francis of Assisi had sent a thundershock to Julia's psyche.

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