Meaning & use
Fulminate
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To express vehement criticism or protest, often loudly and at length.
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The columnist fulminated against the new tax policy in his weekly editorial.
She fulminated for twenty minutes about the poor service before finally calming down.
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Originally meant to thunder or flash like lightning, from Latin 'fulmen' (lightning bolt); the fiery, explosive imagery survives in its modern sense of furious verbal protest.
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