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tonitruate

/təˈnɪtɹʊeɪt/

tonitruate verb: to thunder.

Verb

tonitruate (third-person singular simple present tonitruates, present participle tonitruating, simple past and past participle tonitruated)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To thunder.
    • […] yet through the caliginous sublimity of internexed conundrums, tonitruating with obstreperous cadencies, you rather obfuscate than illuminate our A-b-c-darian conceptions […]1733 August, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 412
    • Stertile thunder tonitruated terribly. ‘Oh Lord forgive us our bloody sins.’ Rain now pelted. It was hard work finding a taxi.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers

Forms of tonitruate

third-person singular presenttonitruates
present participletonitruating
past participletonitruated
pasttonitruated

Origin of tonitruate

From the past participle stem of Latin tonitruare (“to thunder”), from tonitrus (“thunder”) + -ate.

Questions about tonitruate

What does tonitruate mean?
Tonitruate means to thunder.
What part of speech is tonitruate?
Tonitruate is a verb.
How do you pronounce tonitruate?
Tonitruate is pronounced /təˈnɪtɹʊeɪt/.
What is the past tense of tonitruate?
The past tense of tonitruate is tonitruated.

Words near tonitruate in the dictionary

  1. tonishly
  2. tonishness
  3. tonite
  4. tonitrophobia
  5. tonitruant
  6. tonitruate
  7. tonitruated
  8. tonitruates
  9. tonitruating
  10. tonitruous
  11. Tonja

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