Meanings
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1
verb
come on suddenly and intensely
The disease fulminated.
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2
verb
criticize severely
They fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare.
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3
verb
To issue as a denunciation.
They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.
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4
verb
To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
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.
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Etymology
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.