Fulminate

Quick meaning: Fulminate is a verb meaning (intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.

Meaning

(intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.

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.

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.

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 […]

Word Forms

• fulminates
• fulminating
• fulminated

Synonyms for fulminate

Depending on context, synonyms include berate, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, vilify.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rail, mercuric, fustigate, bombard, firebomb, spit fire.

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