01 a. Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.
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1.
Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.
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2.
Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures.
Phrases & compounds
Fulminating oil —
nitroglycerin.
Fulminating powder —
any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.