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fulgurate

fulgurate verb: to flash or emit flashes like lightning.

Verb

fulgurate (third-person singular simple present fulgurates, present participle fulgurating, simple past and past participle fulgurated)

  1. (intransitive) To flash or emit flashes like lightning.
  2. (transitive) To cauterize with electricity; to carry out electrofulguration or to electrocauterize.

Adjective

fulgurate (comparative more fulgurate, superlative most fulgurate)

  1. Fulgural, fulgurant.
    • ... the fulgurate dazzle of light along the filament of an incandescent bulb.2004 July 6, Dean Koontz, The Bad Place, Penguin, →ISBN, page 101

fulgurate meaning in Tamil and Urdu

fulgurate in Tamil

சோர்வு, பார்வை மறப்பு மயக்கம், மின்னல் வேகத்தோற்றம், மின்வெப்பத் திசு அழிப்பு

fulgurate in Urdu

چمکنا, کوندنا

Forms of fulgurate

Verb
third-person singular presentfulgurates
present participlefulgurating
past participlefulgurated
pastfulgurated
Adjective
comparativemore fulgurate
superlativemost fulgurate

Origin of fulgurate

Borrowed from Latin fulgurātus, perfect passive participle of fulgurō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Questions about fulgurate

What does fulgurate mean?
Fulgurate means to flash or emit flashes like lightning.
What is fulgurate in Tamil?
Fulgurate in Tamil is சோர்வு, பார்வை மறப்பு மயக்கம், மின்னல் வேகத்தோற்றம். See Fulgurate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fulgurate?
Fulgurate can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of fulgurate?
The past tense of fulgurate is fulgurated.

Words near fulgurate in the dictionary

  1. fulgours
  2. fulgural
  3. fulgurance
  4. fulgurant
  5. fulgurantly
  6. fulgurate
  7. fulgurated
  8. fulgurates
  9. fulgurating
  10. fulguration
  11. fulgurations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fulgurate (page history and authors); fulgurate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fulgurate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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