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fulgurate

American  
[fuhl-gyuh-reyt] / ˈfʌl gjəˌreɪt /

verb (used without object)

fulgurated, fulgurating
  1. to flash or dart like lightning.


verb (used with object)

fulgurated, fulgurating
  1. Medicine/Medical. to destroy (especially an abnormal growth) by electricity.

fulgurate British  
/ ˈfʌlɡjʊrənt, ˈfʌlɡjʊˌreɪt /

verb

  1. rare (intr) to flash like lightning

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of fulgurate

1670–80; < Latin fulgurātus, past participle of fulgurāre to flash, glitter, lighten, derivative of fulgur flash of lightning

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Dead from the cancer, and sometimes you still felt a fulgurating sadness over it, even though he really was a super asshole at the end.

From The New Yorker Apr. 16, 2012

All the while, however, we pretend that the eternal is unrolling, that the one previous justice, grammar or truth is simply fulgurating, and not being made.

From Pragmatism by James, William

It is terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

The fulgurating Revelation set all his unknowing aspirations in a blaze and fanned the flame of the latent forces stored in his soul during fifteen years of contemplation.

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Dinet, Etienne

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