Word Meaning

fulminate definition and meaning

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