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US
/ˈfʊɫməˌneɪt/
]
[ UK /fˈʊlmɪnˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /fˈʊlmɪnˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
-
criticize severely
She railed against the bad social policies
He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare - cause to explode violently and with loud noise
-
come on suddenly and intensely
the disease fulminated
NOUN
- a salt or ester of fulminic acid
How To Use fulminate In A Sentence
- It is thus obvious that picric acid is much less explosive than the nitric ethers, such as nitro-glycerol and nitro-cellulose, and very considerably less explosive than the nitrogen compounds and fulminates. Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
- They all fulminated against the new curriculum.
- Sir Max had fulminated against the government's call to silence in a leader-page article in the Daily Mail.
- From the columns of The Manchester Guardian Lawrence fulminated against the evils of his time; from the pages of The Skilled Labourer the couple thundered against the evils of the past.
- So the Senate rule that liberals fulminated against for decades has become sacrosanct.
- The mercury fulminate detonates and that causes the loud bang you heard. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
- The churches and newspapers fulminated against the crime wave.
- The mercury fulminate detonates and that causes the loud bang you heard. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
- In a debate with Hitchens a few years ago, the journalist Chris Hedges made the point that Hitchens fulminated against the irrational without admitting the existence of the non-rational. Roger Housden: Hitchens: Arch-Fundamentalist?
- Inevitably, some critics fulminated that boarding schools were turning our girls unfit to be wives and mothers.
