Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Darting or shooting in the manner of lightning; lancinating: as, fulgurating pains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.
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- verb Present participle of
fulgurate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective sharp and piercing
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Examples
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It is terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods.
Les Miserables 2008
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All the while, however, we pretend that the eternal is unrolling, that the one previous justice, grammar or truth is simply fulgurating, and not being made.
Pragmatism William James 1876
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It is terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods.
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It is terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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Its fulgurating pain comes out in shrieks of unlikely laughter.
NYT > Home Page By REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word fulgurating
"Dead from the cancer, and sometimes you still felt a fulgurating sadness over it, even though he really was a super asshole at the end."
- from "Miss Lora" by Junot Díaz, p 63 of the April 23, 2012 edition of the New Yorker
April 24, 2012