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upthunder

upthunder verb: to send up a noise like thunder.

Verb

upthunder (third-person singular simple present upthunders, present participle upthundering, simple past and past participle upthundered)

  1. (archaic, intransitive, poetic) To send up a noise like thunder.
    • Strange-eyed Destruction! who with many a dream
      Of central fires through nether seas — upthundering
      Soothes her fierce solitude.1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ode on the Departing Year

Forms of upthunder

third-person singular presentupthunders
present participleupthundering
past participleupthundered
pastupthundered

Origin of upthunder

From up- + thunder.

Questions about upthunder

What does upthunder mean?
Upthunder means to send up a noise like thunder.
What part of speech is upthunder?
Upthunder is a verb.
What is the past tense of upthunder?
The past tense of upthunder is upthundered.

Words near upthunder in the dictionary

  1. upthrows
  2. upthrust
  3. upthrusted
  4. upthrusting
  5. upthrusts
  6. upthunder
  7. upthundered
  8. upthundering
  9. upthunders
  10. uptick
  11. uptick trade

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