Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To emit flashes of lightning.
  • intransitive verb To emit (light) in flashes.
  • intransitive verb Medicine To destroy (abnormal tissue, for example) by electric current.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To flash as lightning: as, fulgurating clouds.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb rare To flash as lightning.

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  • verb To flash or emit emit flashes like lightning.
  • verb medicine To cauterize with electricity; to carry out electrofulguration or to electrocauterize.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin fulgurāre, fulgurāt-, from fulgur, lightning; see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]

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Latin fulgur ("lightning")

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Examples

  • There are three types of recollection toughened past Mp3 players namely, fulgurate thought, removable or embedded glitter memory and the hard drive.

    Article directories Celibataire Urbaine 2010

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  • Writing about a new kind of language in poetry that is at "variance" with "what normally goes for things and words," Christopher Middleton writes:

    "The variance may be slight, but if it is true, if it fulgurates with truth, then a new sensibility has entered the evolutionary dynamic, rising up, under unthinkable pressure, from the depths."

    "Introduction," in Bolshevism in Art (Manchester, UK: Carcanet New Press, 1978), p. 14.

    December 1, 2007

  • "But the Great Report won't be composed in a study; it will come out of the jungle, breaking cover like some colourful, fantastic beast, a species never seen before, a brand-new genus, flashing, sparkling—fulgurating—high above the tree-line, there for all to see."

    Satin Island by Tom McCarthy, p 62 of the Knopf hardcover edition

    July 6, 2015