fulminate.
To make a verbal attack.
Meaning & usage
To make a verbal attack.
To issue as a denunciation.
To thunder or make a loud noise.
To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
to act as lightning, appearing quickly and destructively
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English fulminaten, borrowed from Latin fulminātus, perfect passive participle of fulminō (“to lighten, hurl or strike with lightning”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fulmen (“lightning which strikes and sets on fire, thunderbolt”), from earlier *fulgmen, *fulgimen, from fulgeō, fulgō (“flash, lighten”). Doublet of fulmine. More at fulgent.
Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
Where this word comes from
From fulminic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). By surface analysis, fulmine + -ate.
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