lightning
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Noun
Wikipedia has an article on: LightningWikipedia lightning (countable and uncountable; plural lightnings)
- The flash of light caused by the discharge of atmospheric electrical charge.
- The discharge of atmospheric electrical charge itself.
- That tree was hit by lightning.
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Adjective
lightning (not comparable)
Verb
to lightning (third-person singular simple present lightnings, present participle lightninging, simple past and past participle lightninged)
- (impersonal, childish or nonstandard) To produce lightning.
- 1916, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy
- Or if it thundered and lightninged, Aunt Frances always dropped everything she might be doing and held Elizabeth Ann tightly in her arms until it was all over.
- 1968, Dan Greenburg, Chewsday: a sex novel
- The next day, though it is not only raining but thundering and lightninging as well, antiquing is seen by three-fourths of those present as a lesser evil than free play.
- 1987, Tricia Springstubb, Eunice Gottlieb and the unwhitewashed truth about life
- "Hey!" yelled Reggie, pulling her back. "Get in here! It's lightninging. I don't want a charcoal-broiled friend!"
- 1988, Carlo Collodi, Roberto Innocenti, The adventures of Pinocchio
- I don't know, Father, but believe me, it has been a horrible night — one that I'll never forget. It thundered and lightninged, and I was very hungry.
- 1916, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy
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