Meanings
verbupthunder (third-person singular simple present upthunders, present participle upthundering, simple past and past participle upthundered)
present singular third person upthunders · participle present upthundering · participle past upthundered · past upthundered
- archaicintransitivepoeticTo send up a noise like thunder.
Strange-eyed Destruction! who with many a dream Of central fires through nether seas — upthundering Soothes her fierce solitude.
1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ode on the Departing Year
Origin
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