Meaning

(intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
3. (intransitive) To thunder or make a loud noise.
4. (transitive, now rare) To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
5. (figurative) to act as lightning, appearing quickly and destructively
6. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.

Example Sentences

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 […]

To be sure, Trump has fulminated on Twitter against the judges who rebuffed him. But his tirades have earned him a reprimand––if a brief, vague one––from his own Supreme Court nominee.

They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.

While they were the opposition, Democrats fulminated that the Republicans were so deep in the pockets of Big Pharma that they wouldn’t even let the government negotiate lower drug prices.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• fulminates
• fulminating
• fulminated

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When Should You Use Fulminate?

Use fulminate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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