FULMINATE


Meaning of FULMINATE in English

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.

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