fulminated

Verb

fulminate (third-person singular simple present fulminates, present participle fulminating, simple past and past participle fulminated)

1. (figuratively, intransitive) 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 […]1855, William Neilson, Mesmerism in its relation to health and disease, page 46

   Synonyms:

   berate, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, vilify

2. (figuratively, transitive) To issue as a denunciation.
   • They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Cicero”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
3. (intransitive) To thunder or make a loud noise.
4. (archaic, transitive) To 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.2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 235
5. (figuratively) to act as lightning, appearing quickly and destructively

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