thunderstrike

== English == === Etymology === From thunder +‎ strike. === Verb === thunderstrike (third-person singular simple present thunderstrikes, present participle thunderstriking, simple past thunderstruck, past participle thunderstricken) (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,[2] 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,[4] At once from Life, and from the Chariot driv’n, Th’ ambitious Boy fell Thunder-struck from Heav’n. (transitive, figurative, now rare) To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible. ==== Translations ==== === Noun === thunderstrike (plural thunderstrikes) The striking of lightning.