Word Definition

Fulminate

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

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