MEANING
To criticize or attack something angrily and forcefully.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- fulminate against corruption
- fulminate about the delay
On the page
From the courthouse steps, she fulminated against the secrecy of the trial.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- fulminate
- Past tense
- fulminated
- Past participle
- fulminated
- Present participle
- fulminating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- fulminate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are fulminating
- Present perfect
- have/has fulminated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been fulminating
- Past
- fulminated
- Past continuous
- was/were fulminating
- Past perfect
- had fulminated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been fulminating
- Future
- will fulminate
- Future continuous
- will be fulminating
- Future perfect
- will have fulminated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been fulminating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: fulminate; fulminates; fulminated; fulminated; fulminating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: dialogue, character. Commonness: uncommon. Third-person singular: fulminates.
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