| Front | fulminate \FULL-muh-nayt\ |
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| Back | verb 1. To utter or send out with denunciation. 2. To explode or to cause to explode. [From Latin fulminare (to strike with lightning), from fulmen (lightning), from fulgere (to shine). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to shine or burn), which is also the source of blaze, blank, blond, bleach, blanket, flame, refulgent, and effulgent. Earliest documented use: 1500.] "She would fulminate honestly against anything she didn't like." - Robert Thirkell; Conflict; Bloomsbury; 2010. "It was plain to see that her temper was delicately adjusted on a fulminate of mercury fuse." - L. Ron Hubbard; The Chee-Chalker; Galaxy Press; 2008. |
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