Meaning

1 senses

  1. Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.

    a salt or ester of fulminic acid

Examples

2 sentences

  1. In his books, he would often fulminate against the government and its policies.

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  2. Why fulminate: it only makes us waste our energy!

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Translations

3 languages

Origin

From fulminic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). By surface analysis, fulmine + -ate.

From fulminic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). By surface analysis, fulmine + -ate.

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Forms

plural: fulminates
Singularfulminate
Pluralfulminates

regular

Word family

7 related words
Relatedfulminationfulminatorfulminatoryfulminicmercury fulminatesilver fulminate
Derivedfulminuric

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fullA1fullnessfullyA2fumblefumeB2

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