Word Meaning

Meaning of fulminate

- To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
- To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
- To cause to explode.
- To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
- A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
- A fulminating powder.