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fulminant

adj

Etymology

Borrowed from French fulminant, from Latin fulminō (“strike like lightning”). By surface analysis, fulmin(ate) + -ant or fulmine + -ant.

  1. borrowed from fulminant

Definitions

  1. That fulminates.

  2. Appearing quickly and with destructive effects.

    • When his liver function was measured, an acute, fulminant hepatitis was discovered.

  3. A thunderbolt.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. An explosive.

      • The excessive danger in handling fulminants was not balanced by any prospective reward.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fulminant. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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