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in thunder

in thunder prepositional phrase: an intensifier, chiefly used with questions.

Prepositional phrase

in thunder

  1. (idiomatic) An intensifier, chiefly used with questions.
    • At the time, however, I was only peevish, wondering what in thunder went on, for I had been in the place long enough to know that, next to the matron, the clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 7

Forms of in thunder

alternative formin thunderation

Questions about in thunder

What does in thunder mean?
In thunder means an intensifier, chiefly used with questions.
What part of speech is in thunder?
In thunder is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in thunder in the dictionary

  1. in theory
  2. in there like swimwear
  3. in this connection
  4. in this day and age
  5. in this essay I will
  6. in thunder
  7. in thunderation
  8. in time
  9. in times
  10. in token of
  11. in too deep

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