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thunderstricken

thunderstricken

English

Adjective

thunderstricken (comparative more thunderstricken, superlative most thunderstricken)

  1. thunderstruck
    • 1831, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eugene Aram, Complete:
      The Doctor was so thunderstricken, that he pocketed the money without uttering a word.
    • 1851, Anonymous, The Book of Enterprise and Adventure:
      At the first shock, no token, in heaven or on earth, had excited attention; but at the sudden movement, and at the aspect of destruction, an overwhelming terror seized on the general mind, insomuch, that the instinct of self-preservation was suspended, and men remained thunderstricken and immoveable.
    • 1903, Richard Garnett, The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales:
      The aghast and thunderstricken philosophers remained gazing at each other for a moment. "