FULMINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fulmination mean? 

• FULMINATION (noun)
  The noun FULMINATION has 2 senses:

1. thunderous verbal attack

2. the act of exploding with noise and violence

  Familiarity information: FULMINATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FULMINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thunderous verbal attack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

diatribe; fulmination

Hypernyms ("fulmination" is a kind of...):

denouncement; denunciation (a public act of denouncing)

Derivation:

fulminate (criticize severely)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of exploding with noise and violence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

his fulminations frightened the horses

Hypernyms ("fulmination" is a kind of...):

burst; explosion (the act of exploding or bursting)

Derivation:

fulminate (cause to explode violently and with loud noise)

 Context examples 

In response to a telephone inquiry, we received nothing more definite than a fulmination against the Press, ending up with the remark that if we would notify our boat he would hand us any directions which he might think it proper to give us at the moment of starting.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)