| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| fulminate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ful·mi·nate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f l m -n t , f l- |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: ful·mi·nat·ed, ful·mi·nat·ing, ful·mi·nates
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To issue a thunderous verbal attack or denunciation: fulminated against political chicanery. 2. To explode or detonate. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To issue (a denunciation, for example) thunderously. 2. To cause to explode. | | NOUN: | An explosive salt of fulminic acid, especially fulminate of mercury. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English fulminaten, from Latin fulminre, fulmint-, to strike with lightning, from fulmen, fulmin-, lightning that strikes. See bhel-1 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | fulmi·nation —NOUN
fulmi·nator —NOUN
fulmi·na·tory (-n-tôr , -t r) —ADJECTIVE
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