vt to cause to explode.
2. fulminate ·vi a fulminating powder.
3. fulminate ·vi a salt of fulminic acid. ·see under fulminic.
4. fulminate ·vi to issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
5. fulminate ·vt to utter or send out with denunciations or censures;
said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
6. fulminate ·vi to thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.