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US
/ˈfʊɫməˌneɪt/
]
[ UK /fˈʊlmɪnˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /fˈʊlmɪnˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
-
criticize severely
She railed against the bad social policies
He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare - cause to explode violently and with loud noise
-
come on suddenly and intensely
the disease fulminated
NOUN
- a salt or ester of fulminic acid
How To Use fulminate In A Sentence
- Not sure if you're being funny or not, but for those playing at home I will simply note that in modern usage "fulminate" usually means "criticize acidly" ... Imagethief
- He fulminates against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, best known for forcing restaurants and bus stations in the Jim Crow South to integrate, and against Brown v. Board of Education.
- Let the rejectionists fulminate and sputter until they wear their vocal cords out. Mjh's blog — 2009 — October
- The mercury fulminate detonates and that causes the loud bang you heard. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
- In default of fulminate, he could easily obtain a substance similar to guncotton, since he had azotic acid at his disposal. The Mysterious Island
- The only known similarly-named chemical was mercuric cyanate or mercuric fulminate. ANC Daily News Briefing
- fulminated" into a blue flame directly in front of Mrs. Peterkin! The Peterkin Papers
- So many things to get a bunyip upset, so little time to fulminate about them.
- This year I was too busy to fulminate about it, too busy to remonstrate or dismiss or despair, and now the opportunity is gone forever. What I've missed
- But in his snappy new opuscule Snark: A Polemic in Seven Fits (Simon & Schuster), Denby fulminates against the epidemic of verbal hazing. Steven G. Kellman: The Snark Ascending