fulminate
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[edit] Etymology
Latin fulminare, to strike like lightning
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fulminate (plural fulminates)
- (chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid; mostly explosive.
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to fulminate (third-person singular simple present fulminates, present participle fulminating, simple past and past participle fulminated)
- To detonate or explode, or to cause something to detonate.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
- (transitive, figuratively) To issue a denunciation.
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- verbal attack
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fulminate
- Second-person plural present tense of fulminare.
- Second-person plural imperative of fulminare.
- Feminine plural of fulminato.