fulminate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈfʌlmɪneɪt/
fulminate (fulminates, present participle fulminating; past and past participle fulminated)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
- (transitive, figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
- They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.
- 1855, William Neilson, Mesmerism in its relation to health and disease (page 46)
- In short, the criticism which the great lexicographer fulminated against an unfortunate author, seems to have been adopted by the profession as applicable to everything under the sun […]
- (intransitive) To thunder or make a loud noise.
- (transitive, now rare) To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
- 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 235:
- the present owners couldn't afford the electric bills anymore, several amateur gaffers, sad to say, having already been fulminated trying to bootleg power in off the municipal lines.
- 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 235:
- Spanish: fulminar
- Spanish: fulminar
fulminate (plural fulminates)
- (chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 193:
- On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 193:
- French: fulminate
- Spanish: fulminato
- fulmination
- fulminator
- fulminatory
- fulminic
- mercury fulminate
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