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Fulminate   /fˈʊlmənˌeɪt/   Listen
Fulminate

verb
(past & past part. fulminated; pres. part. fulminating)
1.
Criticize severely.  Synonym: rail.  "She railed against the bad social policies"
2.
Come on suddenly and intensely.
3.
Cause to explode violently and with loud noise.



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"Fulminate" Quotes from Famous Books



... had a mind of the sequential order. By subtle processes, unanalysable even by herself, even the record of Miss Bessy Dicky started this mind upon momentous trains of thought. Unquestionably the Zenith Club acted as a fulminate for little Annie Eustace. To others it might seem, during some of the sessions, as a pathetic attempt of village women to raise themselves upon tiptoes enough to peer over their centuries of weedy feminine ...
— The Butterfly House • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... forensic battle, fearless of all consequences; and as the ancient war-chariot would sometimes set its axle on fire by the rapidity of its own movement, so would the ardent soul of Otis become ignited and fulminate with thought, as he swept ...
— James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist • John Clark Ridpath


Words linked to "Fulminate" :   detonate, appear, fulminating mercury, set off, fulminant, explode, blow up, fulmination, come along, salt, denounce


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