fulminate

• In its pure state it is about as sensitive to impact as mercury fulminate or lead azide. —  18-ImprovisedExplosives
• His purported bow to the Saudi King on his recent trip, categorically denied by the White House, got the conspiracists going again (the more the conspiracists fulminate, the more his virtue and reasonableness seem evident). —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• Without the capacity to get even the most modest amendment debated, much less passed, Democrats would shout and holler and fulminate, and then stand by helplessly as Republicans passed large corporate tax breaks, stuck it to labor, or slashed social services. —  Sweetness & Light
• Michal Grzes may fulminate, the moralists may get hot under the collar, but such arguments do not stand up. —  thinkBuddha.org
• The essence of the law is altercation; for the law can altercate, fulminate, deprecate, irritate, and go on at any rate. —  A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the Same Context

Word Family