Definition of "thunderstrike" in English

verb

1. (transitive, now rare) To strike, blast, or injure by, or as if by, lightning.

   • 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Part 3, London: Henrie Fetherstone, Book 4, Chapter 9, § 1, p. 738, And such Warres haue made impressions into all our Neighbour Countries […] haue lightened on Turkie and blasted the Seraglio; haue thunder-stricken Barbarie, haue torne the Atlas there,
   • 1717, Joseph Addison (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 2, “The Story of Phaeton,” p. 48, At once from Life, and from the Chariot driv’n, Th’ ambitious Boy fell Thunder-struck from Heav’n.

2. (transitive, figurative, now rare) To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible.

noun

1. The striking of lightning.