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noun
Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To make a verbal attack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, intransitive
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Synonyms: berate, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, vilify
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verb
To issue as a denunciation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
To thunder or make a loud noise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
to act as lightning, appearing quickly and destructively
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
a salt or ester of fulminic acid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: salt
Narrower terms: mercury fulminate, fulminate of mercury, fulminating mercury
verb
cause to explode violently and with loud noise
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: explode, detonate, blow up, set off
verb
come on suddenly and intensely
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: appear, come along
verb
criticize severely
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rail
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Broader terms: denounce
History
From fulminic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). By surface analysis, fulmine + -ate.
Inherited from Middle English fulminaten, borrowed from Latin fulminātus, perfect passive participle of fulminō (“to lighten, hurl or strike with lightning”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fulmen (“lightning which strikes and sets on fire, thunderbolt”), from earlier *fulgmen, *fulgimen, from fulgeō, fulgō (“flash, lighten”). Doublet of fulmine. More at fulgent.
Across languages
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