Synonyms for thunderstorm
ˈθʌn dərˌstɔrmthun·der·storm

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1. thunderstorm, electrical storm, electric stormnoun

   a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning

   Synonyms:
   electrical storm, electric storm

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1. supercell

   a rotating storm

   a highly organized thunderstorm that can last for several hours, capable of producing both updrafts and downdrafts exceeding 100 miles per hour, large hailstones, tornadoes, and flash flooding (often used attributively)

   Submitted by rinat on June 5, 2017  

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1. List of paraphrases for "thunderstorm":

   thunderstorms, storm, thundershower, thunder, storms, rainstorm

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1. Veterinarian Caroline Hecker:

   They don’t understand that it’s the Fourth of July. They don’t understand there’s a thunderstorm coming. They just feel those pressure changes, they hear that rumble, and they think their world is coming to an end.

2. Robert Louis Stevenson:

   Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

3. Robert Louis Stephenson:

   Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

4. James Thurber:

   I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

5. Alyssa Dweck:

   Again, it’s those three hormones, estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, that decrease and cause a weakened orgasm response that can be more like a drizzle than a thunderstorm.