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tonitruating

tonitruating is the present participle and gerund of tonitruate.

Meaning of tonitruate

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

Questions about tonitruating

What is tonitruating the present participle and gerund of?
Tonitruating is the present participle and gerund of tonitruate.

Words near tonitruating in the dictionary

  1. tonitrophobia
  2. tonitruant
  3. tonitruate
  4. tonitruated
  5. tonitruates
  6. tonitruating
  7. tonitruous
  8. Tonja
  9. tonjon
  10. tonjons
  11. tonk

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