Meaning & use
Thunderstruck
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Extremely astonished or shocked, as if struck by lightning.
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She stood thunderstruck when she learned she had won the lottery.
The audience was thunderstruck by the magician's final trick.
A note on using this word
The word combines "thunder" and "struck" to evoke the sudden, overwhelming force of a lightning strike as a metaphor for shock.
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unfazed
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