fulminate

1. v. i. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report. Source: opted

2. v. i. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces. Source: opted

3. v. t. To cause to explode. Source: opted

4. v. t. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority. Source: opted

5. v. i. A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic. Source: opted

6. v. i. A fulminating powder. Source: opted

7. n. a salt or ester of fulminic acid Source: wordnet

8. v. criticize severely Source: wordnet

9. v. come on suddenly and intensely Source: wordnet

10. v. cause to explode violently and with loud noise Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

12. v:100 n. a salt or ester of fulminic acid v. criticize severely v. come on suddenly and intensely Source: ecdict

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