Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thundering; crackling; exploding; detonating.
- Figuratively, hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.
- adjective Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures.
- adjective nitroglycerin.
- adjective (Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
fulminate . - adjective
explosive - adjective medicine Describing any sudden and severe (often fatal)
inflammation
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Examples
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The principal compound of fulminic acid is the mercury salt commonly known as fulminating mercury.
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If Mr. Ford was a white guy, no one would be assailing him with this kind of fulminating rage.
Matthew Yglesias » Harold Ford Calls for Immediate Tax Cuts, Immediate Deficit Reduction 2010
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If Mr. Ford was a white guy, no one would be assailing him with this kind of fulminating rage.
Matthew Yglesias » Harold Ford Calls for Immediate Tax Cuts, Immediate Deficit Reduction 2010
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If Mr. Ford was a white guy, no one would be assailing him with this kind of fulminating rage.
Matthew Yglesias » Harold Ford Calls for Immediate Tax Cuts, Immediate Deficit Reduction 2010
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If Mr. Ford was a white guy, no one would be assailing him with this kind of fulminating rage.
Matthew Yglesias » Harold Ford Calls for Immediate Tax Cuts, Immediate Deficit Reduction 2010
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You have a kind of fulminating amalgamation of terrorist groups, each of whom is striking in different places.
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You have a kind of fulminating amalgamation of terrorist groups, each of whom is striking in different places.
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John West, associate director of the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute, has replied to my "fulminating" essay, posted to Dispatches, In the Agora and the Panda's Thumb, on ID and "divine design".
Reply to John West on ID and Metaphysics - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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John West, associate director of the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute, has replied to my "fulminating" essay, posted to Dispatches, In the Agora and the Panda's Thumb, on ID and "divine design".
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On the other hand, the numerous medical witnesses for the defence, unconnected by any bond of common interest, testified that natural causes, were sufficient to account for the death; many of them asserting that the case in all its symptoms and post-mortem appearances tallied precisely with the so-called fulminating form of cerebro-spinal meningitis, which was prevalent in Baltimore at the time of General Ketchum's death. [
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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