Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fulminate

1 sense of fulminate

Sense 1
fulminate -- (a salt or ester of fulminic acid)
       => salt -- (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb fulminate

3 senses of fulminate

Sense 1
fulminate, rail -- (criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies")
       => denounce -- (speak out against; "He denounced the Nazis")

Sense 2
fulminate -- (come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated")
       => appear, come along -- (come into being or existence, or appear on the scene; "Then the computer came along and changed our lives"; "Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago")

Sense 3
fulminate -- (cause to explode violently and with loud noise)
       => explode, detonate, blow up, set off -- (cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb")