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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Tremendous

/trəm-ĕn'-dəs/ · Tre·men·dous · IPA /tɹɪˈmɛndəs/
01 a. Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous…
  1. 1.
    Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.
    “A tremendous mischief was a foot.” Motley.