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When you fulminate, you do not just disagree. You speak out in a burst of anger, as if the words themselves were a strike of lightning. People usually fulminate against someone or something — a government, a new rule, a newspaper, a person. The little word against is the usual partner. It is a rather formal, even old-fashioned verb: you will meet it in columns, speeches, and history books more than in the school corridor. A teenager who is simply angry will say they are furious, or they are having a go at someone; a writer fulminates. The feeling is sudden and loud, not a quiet grumble that lasts all afternoon. Though actually, the picture behind the word really is lightning: it came into English from a Latin verb meaning to hurl a thunderbolt, from a word for lightning that strikes and sets things on fire. That is why it still feels like a blast, not a moan. There is another, quite different life for the same spelling in chemistry: a fulminate is a kind of salt that can explode if you knock it. Same letters, different job. For most , the angry-speech verb is the one that matters.
痛斥；猛烈抨擊（常接 against）
組成From Latin fulminō, “to strike with lightning”, from fulmen, “thunderbolt” (earlier *fulgmen, from fulgeō / fulgō, “to flash, lighten”). The English verb uses the ending -ate. Doublet of fulmine.
同家族的字
- fulminationthe noun: an outburst of this angry criticism
- fulgentfrom the same Latin fulgeō, “to flash, shine”
- fulminean older doublet of the same Latin verb
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fulminateverb詞源 1/ˈfʌlmɪneɪt/
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To make a verbal attack.
- In short, the criticism which the great lexicographer fulminated against an unfortunate author, seems to have been adopted by the profession as applicable to everything under the sun […]
- To be sure, Trump has fulminated on Twitter against the judges who rebuffed him. But his tirades have earned him a reprimand––if a brief, vague one––from his own Supreme Court nominee.
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To issue as a denunciation.
- They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.
- While they were the opposition, Democrats fulminated that the Republicans were so deep in the pockets of Big Pharma that they wouldn’t even let the government negotiate lower drug prices.
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To thunder or make a loud noise.
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archaicTo 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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to act as lightning, appearing quickly and destructively
fulminatenoun詞源 2/ˈfʌlmɪneɪt/
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chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesAny salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
- On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。