fulmine

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/ˈfʌlmɪn//ˈfʊlmɪn/

verb

To thunder or lightning.

OriginFrench fulminer ← Latin fulminō →
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Meanings

verbfulmine (third-person singular simple present fulmines, present participle fulmining, simple past and past participle fulmined)

present singular third person fulmines · participle present fulmining · participle past fulmined · past fulmined

  1. archaicTo thunder or lightning.

    And ever and anone the rosy red Flasht through her face, as it had been a flake Of lightning through bright heven fulmined […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. archaicfigurativelyTo utter with authority or vehemence; fulminate.

    She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique.

    1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinfulminō“lighten, illuminate”
  2. Frenchfulminer
  3. Englishfulmine

Borrowed from French fulminer, from Latin fulminō (“lighten, illuminate”). More at fulminate.

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APA

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MLA

“fulmine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fulmine. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fulmine,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fulmine.

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