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Noun: fulminate  'fûl-mu,neyt
  1. A salt or ester of fulminic acid
Verb: fulminate  'fûl-mu,neyt
  1. Criticize severely
    "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare";
    - rail
     
  2. Come on suddenly and intensely
    "the disease fulminated"
     
  3. Cause to explode violently and with loud noise

Derived forms: fulminated, fulminates, fulminating

Type of: appear, blow up, come along, denounce, denunciate, detonate, explode, salt, set off

Encyclopedia: Fulminate