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.

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  • adjective sharp and piercing

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Examples

  • It is terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • 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

  • It is terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods.

    Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius 1862

  • 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

  • Its fulgurating pain comes out in shrieks of unlikely laughter.

    NYT > Home Page By REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN 2010

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  • "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