Definitions for thunderbolt

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thunderbolt thun·der·bolt

Spelling: [thuhn-der-bohlt]

IPA: /ˈθʌn dərˌboʊlt/

Thunderbolt is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 739 anagrams from letters in thunderbolt (bdehlnorttu).

Definitions for thunderbolt

noun

1. a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
2. an imaginary bolt or dart conceived as the material destructive agent cast to earth in a flash of lightning:
3. something very destructive, terrible, severe, sudden, or startling.
4. a person who acts with fury or with sudden and irresistible force.

Origin of thunderbolt

First recorded in 1400-50, thunderbolt is from the late Middle English word thondre bolte. See thunder, bolt¹

Examples for thunderbolt

The thunderbolt had fallen, and now, O God, what should he do?

Dear oak-tree, you are riven by the storm-king's thunderbolt!

It played in the background while God made love to the thunderbolt that birthed Tom Brady.

The Pagoda might be an erroneous variant of the thunderbolt Vadjra.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

And I think the next one, thunderbolt and Lightfoot, was kind of like that too.

For this is the thunderbolt with which they fright those whom they are resolved not to favor.

But as high school came to a close, her father made an announcement that hit Nashwa like a thunderbolt.

If Saraswati was a god in the eyes of his followers, then the threat of karmic retribution was his thunderbolt.

In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.