| 单词 | fulminate |
| 释义 | fulminate (once / 6840 pages) 1v 2n Watch a bomb fulminate or explode and hope you're under safe cover. Have your parents fulminate or blow up at you for coming home past curfew and hope you're not grounded for too long. The word fulminate is made up of the Latin root fulmen meaning "lightning flash." Look up at the sky during a violent thunderstorm and chances are you'll catch thunder and lightning fulminate or explode loudly and violently overhead. But you needn't look to the sky alone for this kind of intensity. If you find yourself in a room with passionate Republicans and Democrats debating, you might see them fulminate or severely rail against each other's beliefs. WORD FAMILYfulminate: fulminated, fulminates, fulminating, fulmination+/fulmination: fulminations USAGE EXAMPLESHe is somewhere, 58 stories above the action, pacing, fulminating, tweeting. Slate(Dec 08, 2016) Its story fulminated, “The close relationship the DNC and mainstream media maintained with Clinton throughout the primaries is comparable to propaganda tactics employed in dictatorships.” Washington Post(Nov 07, 2016) My real concern at this point is Donald Trump’s supporters continue to fulminate. Salon(Nov 08, 2016) 1 1v cause to explode violently and with loud noise Hyper blow up, detonate, explode, set off cause to burst with a violent release of energy 2v come on suddenly and intensely the disease fulminated Hyper appear, come along come into being or existence, or appear on the scene 3v criticize severely 2He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare Syn|Hyper rail denounce speak out against n a salt or ester of fulminic acid Hypo|Hyper fulminate of mercury, fulminating mercury, mercury fulminate a fulminate that when dry explodes violently if struck or heated; used in detonators and blasting caps and percussion caps salt a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) |
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