ALL meanings of steal someone's thunder
steal
S s - verb with object steal someone's thunder to strike, drive, inflict, give forth, etc., with loud noise or violent action. 1
- verb without object steal someone's thunder to give forth thunder (often used impersonally with it as the subject): It thundered last night. 1
- verb without object steal someone's thunder to make a loud, resounding noise like thunder: The artillery thundered in the hills. 1
- verb without object steal someone's thunder to utter loud or vehement denunciations, threats, or the like. 1
- verb without object steal someone's thunder to speak in a very loud tone. 1
- verb without object steal someone's thunder to move or go with a loud noise or violent action: The train thundered through the village. 1
- noun steal someone's thunder a loud, explosive, resounding noise produced by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning discharge. 1
- noun steal someone's thunder any loud, resounding noise: the thunder of applause. 1
- noun steal someone's thunder a threatening or startling utterance, denunciation, or the like. 1
- idioms steal someone's thunder steal someone's thunder, to use for one's own purposes and without the knowledge or permission of the originator the inventions or ideas of another. to ruin or detract from the effect of a performance, remark, etc., by anticipating it. 1
- noun steal someone's thunder to detract from the attention due to another by forestalling him or her 0
- noun steal someone's thunder to use someone's ideas or methods without permission and without giving credit 0
- noun steal someone's thunder to lessen the effectiveness of someone's statement or action by using or doing it before that person 0