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Meaning of 'fulminate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Fulminate [ v. i.]
- To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
- To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
- A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
- A fulminating powder.
2 . Fulminate [ v. t.]
- To cause to explode.
- To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.

Meaning of 'fulminate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . fulminate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- criticize severely
Example in sentence:
  • He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare;
  • She railed against the bad social policies
Meaning (2):
- come on suddenly and intensely
Example in sentence:
  • the disease fulminated

Nearby Words:

fulahs fulbe fulciment fulcra fulcrate fulcrum fulcrums fuldble fulfill fulfilled

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