The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fulminating \Ful"mi*na"ting\, a.
Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.
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Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures.
Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin.
Fulminating powder (Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric 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.]
To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
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1 explosive 2 (context medicine English) Describing any sudden and severe (often fatal) inflammation v
(present participle of fulminate English)
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Usage examples of "fulminating".
Whilst the Porte was fulminating her bull of excommunication, she directed a note to the corps diplomatique at Constantinople, in which she explained the quarrel with her subjects, and in which she demanded the strictest neutrality on the part of the great powers, and declared Egypt in a state of blockade.
Blott dashed in and listened to General Burnett fulminating from the Grange about blackguards in Whitehall, red tape, green belts and bluestockings, none of which he fully understood.
He might be denouncing Goldstein and demanding sterner measures against thought criminals and saboteurs, he might be fulminating against the atrocities of the Eurasian army, he might be praising Big Brother or the heroes on the Malabar front-it made no difference.
Army, presented with acute alcohol intoxication, diffuse anxiety alternating with a depressionlike state, fulminating anger, self-mutilating behavior, and an eightpound chart of his previous hospitalizations.
But there had been a cutback in permits when the Limiters began fulminating opposition.
She is covered by insect bites and rashes, her wrists and ankles with fulminating infections.
Sulfurous, fulminating tropical air begins to leak in through the jumbo's air vents.