Thesaurus: fulminate

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1. v. i. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
2. v. i. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
3. v. t. To cause to explode.
4. v. t. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
5. v. i. A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
6. v. i. A fulminating powder.
7. n. a salt or ester of fulminic acid
8. v. criticize severely
9. v. come on suddenly and intensely
10. v. cause to explode violently and with loud noise
11. 1. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report. 2. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces. 1. To cause to explode. Sprat. 2. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority. They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees. De Quincey. (a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic. (b) A fulminating powder. Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; -- called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.
12. v:100 n. a salt or ester of fulminic acid v. criticize severely v. come on suddenly and intensely