fulminate
fulminate is a 9-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
- intransitive verb. To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
- transitive verb. To cause to explode.
- transitive verb. To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
- intransitive verb. A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
- intransitive verb. A fulminating powder.
- noun. a salt or ester of fulminic acid
- verb. cause to explode violently and with loud noise
- verb. come on suddenly and intensely
"the disease fulminated"
- verb. criticize severely
"He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"
"She railed against the bad social policies"
Synonyms
Common word forms
fulminated, fulminates, fulminating
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