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thundering(2)(dictionary)

thundering(1) (iou)



thundering adjective & adverb. M16.
[from THUNDER verb + -ING2.]
A. adjective.
That thunders (lit. & fig.); (of sound) as loud as thunder. M16.
W. Sheed Belloc's thundering affirmations gave..Ward something to march to.
Very energetic or forcible, violent. Now esp. very great or big, excessive, immense. colloq. E17.
Handgunner Once again, it was a thundering success.
b. adverb. Excessively, immensely, exceedingly. colloq. E19.
Independent [Sowerbutts] was, as Geoffrey Smith puts it, 'a thundering good gardener'.
thunderingly adverb L17.