thunderstriking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of thunderstrike

adj

1. (rare)Causing great amazement or shock.

   “He then took shelter from the rage that might be expected to follow such thunder-striking intelligence under the bed clothes,”

   “The opening of territory to slavery […] was the arousing, astounding, thunderstriking event that brought Lincoln back into politics and lifted him to a new level of public moral argument.”