meaning of fulminate
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.
3. To cause to explode.
4. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
5. A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
6. A fulminating powder.
Related Words
fulminate | fulminated |
