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Definition of thunderbolt:
- A belemnite, or thunderstone.
- A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.
- Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.
- Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
Synonyms:
longbow, affront, crash, stroke, fury, landfall, zinger, flash, peal, pike, chain lightning, dirk, blow, flash of lightning, halberd, bombshell, lightning, bolt, thunderclap, catapult, revelation, battleax, crack, mace, thunderpeal, roll, a first, lance, angry, clap of thunder, eye, crossbow, cutlass, storm cloud, sheet lightning, scandal, surprise, shock, dash, a rude awakening, deadbolt, thunderstroke, forked lightning, bolt of lightning, boom, a blinding revelation/realization/vision.
Usage examples:
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Though she had believed herself surely prepared long since for the worst, this news fell on her like a thunderbolt.
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But a letter from Italy came like a thunderbolt- my father had grown rapidly worse and wanted to see me at once.
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Then, like the proverbial thunderbolt, had come death and financial disaster, throwing her on her own resources.