Synonyms of the word

thunderbolt

• n. A flash of lightning accompanied by an instant crash of thunder.
• n. (figuratively) An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.
• n. Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
• n. (soccer) A very powerful shot.
• n. (paleontology) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
• n. (heraldry) A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them,…

bolt

• n. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one…
• n. A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
• n. A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides…
• n. A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
• n. A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by…
• n. A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
• n. A sudden event, action or emotion.
• n. A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
• n. (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
• n. A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
• n. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
• n. (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected;…
• n. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
• v. To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
• v. To secure a door by locking or barring it.
• v. (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
• v. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
• v. (intransitive) To escape.
• v. (intransitive, botany) Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.
• v. To swallow food without chewing it.
• v. To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
• v. (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected;…
• v. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
• adv. Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
• v. To sift, especially through a cloth.
• v. To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
• v. To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
• v. (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
• n. A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

bombshell

• n. a bomb or artillery shell designed to explode on impact.
• n. something that is very surprising, shocking, amazing or sensational.
• n. (by extension) someone who is very attractive (compare sex symbol).

lightning

• n. A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between…
• n. A discharge of this kind.
• n. (figuratively) Anything that moves very fast.
• n. The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental…
• adj. Extremely fast or sudden.
• adj. Moving at the speed of lightning.
• v. (impersonal, childish or nonstandard) To produce lightning.

surprise

• n. Something not expected.
• n. (attributive) Unexpected.
• n. The feeling that something unexpected has happened.
• n. (obsolete) A dish covered with a crust of raised pastry, but with no other contents.
• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted.
• v. (transitive) To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo or witness something unexpected.
• v. (intransitive) To cause surprise.
• v. (transitive) To attack unexpectedly.
• v. (transitive) To take unawares.

thunderclap

• n. A sudden, loud thunder caused by a nearby lightning strike; a shock of thunder, as opposed to reverberating…