Fulminate

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1. Verb

To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.

2. Verb

To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.

3. Verb

To cause to explode.

4. Verb

To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.

5. Verb

A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.

6. Verb

A fulminating powder.

7. Noun

a salt or ester of fulminic acid
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