# fulminate
## English
### Etymology

From Latin fulminātus, past participle of fulminō (“lighten, hurl or strike with lightning”), 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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfʌlmɪneɪt/, /ˈfʊlmɪneɪt/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈfʌlmɪneɪt/, /ˈfʊlmɪneɪt/, /-əneɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Verb

fulminate (third-person singular simple present fulminates, present participle fulminating, simple past and past participle fulminated)
* (intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
** 2007 January 21, David Brooks, “Mr. Chips Goes to Congress”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:While they were the opposition, Democrats fulminated that the Republicans were so deep in the pockets of Big Pharma that they wouldn’t even let the government negotiate lower drug prices.
** 2017 February 15, Peter Beinart, “American Institutions Are Fighting Back Against Trump”, in The Atlantic‎:To be sure, Trump has fulminated on Twitter against the judges who rebuffed him. But his tirades have earned him a reprimand––if a brief, vague one––from his own Supreme Court nominee.
* (transitive, figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
** 1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Cicero”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine:They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.
** 1855, William Neilson, Mesmerism in its relation to health and disease, page 46:In short, the criticism which the great lexicographer fulminated against an unfortunate author, seems to have been adopted by the profession as applicable to everything under the sun […]
* (intransitive) To thunder or make a loud noise.
* (transitive, now rare) To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
** 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 235:the present owners couldn't afford the electric bills anymore, several amateur gaffers, sad to say, having already been fulminated trying to bootleg power in off the municipal lines.

#### Synonyms

* (verbal attack): berate, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, vilify

#### Derived terms

* fulminuric
* infulminate
* unfulminated

#### Translations
### Noun

fulminate (plural fulminates)
* (chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
** 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 193:On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.

#### Translations
### Related terms

* fulmination
* fulminator
* fulminatory
* fulminic
* mercury fulminate
* silver fulminate

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fulminate m (plural fulminates)
* fulminate

### Further reading

* “fulminate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

fulminate
* inflection of fulminare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

fulminate f pl
* feminine plural of fulminato

## Latin
### Adjective

fulmināte
* vocative masculine singular of fulminātus

## Spanish
### Verb

fulminate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of fulminar combined with te