fulminate

/'fʌlmineit/

Thân thiện

The chemist carefully handled the fulminate in the laboratory.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To explode violently with a loud noise: To detonate or cause to detonate with great force and sound.
   • To issue a severe verbal denunciation or condemnation: To express strong, vehement, and often sudden criticism or protest against someone or something.
   • (Medical) To occur or develop suddenly and severely: Used to describe a disease or condition that erupts with rapid and intense severity.

Examples of Usage

• Verb:
  • The old dynamite was unstable and could fulminate at the slightest disturbance.
  • The senator stood up and fulminated against the new tax proposal for over an hour.
  • The infection fulminated, overwhelming the patient's immune system within days.

Advanced Usage

• "to fulminate against/at": This is the most common construction when the verb means to criticize severely. It is followed by the target of the criticism.
  • The editorial fulminated at the government's inaction.
• As a medical term: Used intransitively to describe the sudden, severe onset of a disease.
  • Hepatitis can sometimes fulminate, leading to acute liver failure.

Variants and Related Words

• Fulmination (noun): The act of fulminating; a violent explosion or a thunderous verbal attack.
  • His speech was a long fulmination against corporate greed.
• Fulminant (adjective): (Especially in medicine) occurring suddenly and with great intensity.
  • The patient was diagnosed with fulminant hepatic failure.

Synonyms

• Denounce: To condemn openly as being wrong or evil.
• Rail: To complain or protest angrily and vehemently.
• Explode: To burst or shatter violently and noisily.
• Detonate: To explode or cause to explode.

Related Phrases

• "fulminate against injustice": To protest against unfairness with great passion.
  • The activist spent her life fulminating against injustice.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a salt or ester of fulminic acid

Verb

1. cause to explode violently and with loud noise
2. come on suddenly and intensely
   • the disease fulminated
3. criticize severely
   • He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare
   • She railed against the bad social policies

Từ đồng nghĩa

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