thundershock

plural thundershocks

1. A sudden burst of thunder, a thunderclap; any similarly loud and sudden noise; a sudden, severe shock.

   The disappointment of some was almost like a thundershock.

   1895, William Taylor, Story of my Life, page 158

   4 more examples

   The old Town Clock, / Like a distant thundershock, / Heard and gone, / Striking One!

   1851, William Dana Emerson, The Old Town Clock: Occasional Thoughts, in Verse, page 97

   Every time a home is destroyed, the whole nation suffers a severe thundershock.

   1962, Louis Hadley Evans, Your Marriage: Duel Or Duet?, page 13

   The simultaneous presence of fluid motions and abundant particles in the solar nebula make charge separation (and hence lightning discharges and their accompanying thundershocks) a likely but at the present time speculative phenomenon.

   1989, R. G. Prinn; B. Fegley, Jr., “Solar Nebula Chemistry: Origin of Planetary, Satellite and Cometary Volatiles”, in S. K. Atreya, James B. Pollack, Mildred Shapley Matthews, editors, Origin and Evolution of Planetary and Satellite Atmospheres, page 86

   Reading about the life of St. Francis of Assisi had sent a thundershock to Julia's psyche.

   2011, Sergio Troncoso, From This Wicked Patch of Dust, page 63