fulminate
verb (used without object)
to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
fulminated
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past participleof fulminate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof fulminate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
fulminateverb (used without object)to explode with a loud noise; detonate.
Example Sentences
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“It takes people who are wealthy in New York to maintain the museums, maintain the hospitals,” John Catsimatidis, a billionaire real estate and supermarket tycoon, fulminated on Fox News.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
Ferguson stared deep into the night while, behind him, his coaching staff of Neil McCann, Allan McGregor and Billy Dodds fulminated.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
Kim Jong-il was exasperated by his compatriots’ lack of drive and creativity, and bizarrely fulminated against excessive ideology and dogma in North Korean films, secret recordings aired in a new documentary reveal.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2016
While other preachers fulminated about damnation, Rev. Schuller offered his congregation a theology that he described as “possibility thinking.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2015
Despite the remonstrances of the hermit-laborer, he dashed in among the startled slaves, and fulminated his anathemas.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
