Found 2 items, similar to fulminate.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: fulminate fulminate n : a salt or ester of fulminic acid fulminate v 1: criticize severely; “He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare”; “She railed against the bad social policies” [syn: rail] 2: come on suddenly and intensely; “the disease fulminated” 3: cause to explode violently and with loud noise
English → English (gcide) Definition: Fulminate Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fulminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fulminating.] [L. fulminatus, p. p. of fulminare to lighten, strike with lightning, fr. fulmen thunderbolt, fr. fulgere to shine. See Fulgent, and cf. Fulmine.] 1. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report. [1913 Webster] 2. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces. [1913 Webster] Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, v. t. 1. To cause to explode. --Sprat. [1913 Webster] 2. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority. [1913 Webster] They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] Fulminate \Ful"mi*nate\, n. [Cf. P. fulminate. See Fulminate, v. i.] (Chem.) (a) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic. (b) A fulminating powder. [1913 Webster] Fulminate of gold, an explosive compound of gold; -- called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans. [1913 Webster]