fulminate
verb [intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they fulminate | |
| he / she / it fulminates | |
| past simple fulminated | |
| past participle fulminated | |
| -ing form fulminating |
- fulminate against (somebody/something)
to criticize somebody/something angrily 愤怒谴责；怒斥 He was always fulminating against interference from the government. 他总是强烈反对政府的干预。
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin fulminat- ‘struck by lightning’, from fulmen, fulmin- ‘lightning’. The earliest sense (derived from medieval Latin fulminare) was ‘denounce formally’, later ‘issue formal censures’ (originally said of the Pope). A sense ‘emit thunder and lightning’, based on the original Latin meaning, arose in the early 17th cent., and hence ‘explode violently’ (late 17th cent.).