THUNDERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thundering mean? 

• THUNDERING (adjective)
  The adjective THUNDERING has 2 senses:

1. sounding like thunder

2. extraordinarily big or impressive

  Familiarity information: THUNDERING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THUNDERING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sounding like thunder

Context example:

the thundering herd

Similar:

noisy (full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Extraordinarily big or impressive

Context example:

the thundering silence of what was left unsaid

Similar:

impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)

 Context examples 

She had been asleep, always, and now life was thundering imperatively at all her doors.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now, too, the archers had room to draw their bows once more, and great stones from the yard of the cog came thundering and crashing among the flying rovers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent thundering through space.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

All through the evening they kept thundering away.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

We shot over the brow and flew madly down the hill with the great red coach roaring and thundering before us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet, in all the hurry of my thoughts, wild running with the thundering sea,—the storm, and my uneasiness regarding Ham were always in the fore-ground.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The beaches of the outer cove were thundering with the surf, and even in our land-locked inner cove a respectable sea was breaking.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Mars, still in your house of prestigious career victory, will send a powerful beam to the full moon of February 8-9 from your eleventh house of community, and people who love your work will give you thundering applause.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She knew that whatever she did she must do according to the law, and in the long hours of watching, the shot-gun on her knees, the murderer restless beside her and the storms thundering without, she made original sociological researches and worked out for herself the evolution of the law.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The latter, unable to escape from the shower of blows, set spurs to his mule and rode for his life, with his enemy thundering behind him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)