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thunderbolt definition

thunder·bolt (-bōlt′)

noun

  1. a flash of lightning and the accompanying thunder
  2. a bolt or missile imagined as hurled to earth by a stroke of lightning
  3. something that stuns or acts with sudden violence or force

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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