From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Fulminated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fulminating}.] [L. fulminatus, p. p. of fulminare to lighten, strike with lightning, fr. fulmen thunderbolt, fr. fulgere to shine. See {Fulgent}, and cf. {Fulmine}.]
1. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
2. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, verb (used with an object)
1. To cause to explode. --Sprat.
2. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees. --De Quincey.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, noun [Cf. P. fulminate. See {Fulminate}, verb (used without an object)] (Chem.) (a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under {Fulminic}. (b) A fulminating powder.
{Fulminate of gold}, an explosive compound of gold; -- called also {fulminating gold}, and {aurum fulminans}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a salt or ester of fulminic acid
verb
1: criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies" [syn: {rail}]
2: come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated"
3: cause to explode violently and with loud noise
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "fulminate": backfire, bang, bark, blast, blow out, blow up, burst, bust, coal, crack, detonate, discharge, explode, feed, fill up, fire, fuel, fuel up, go off, let off, oil, pop, refuel, set off, shoot, stoke, top off, touch off
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