Noun

(en noun)

A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.

(figuratively) An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.

* Dryden

the Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war

Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.

* Hakewill

He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication.

(soccer) A very powerful shot.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=February 5 , author=Michael Kevin Darling , title=Tottenham 2 - 1 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Substitute Niko Kranjcar's injury-time thunderbolt gave Tottenham a dramatic win over Bolton.}}

(paleontology) A belemnite, or thunderstone.

(heraldiccharge) A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion.

After a storm the sea is in agitation .

A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation.

She causes great agitation within me.

Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.

''the antislavery agitation

''labor agitation

After this conflict pro-independence agitation temporarily died down.

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Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.

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