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Fulminate Full Muh Nayt Verb Utter Send Denunciation 2. To Explode

Fulminate means to utter or send out with denunciation or to explode or cause to explode.

Fulminar significa pronunciar o enviar con denuncian o explotar o causar que explote.

Front fulminate \FULL-muh-nayt\
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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