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Etymology

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up- +‎ thunder

Verb

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

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