The Only Use of
fulminate
in
Brave New World
- And at its foot, here and there, a mosaic of white bones, a still unrotted carcase dark on the tawny ground marked the place where deer or steer, puma or porcupine or coyote, or the greedy turkey buzzards drawn down by the whiff of carrion and fulminated as though by a poetic justice, had come too close to the destroying wires.†
p. 105..4
Definition:
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(fulminate) to criticize severely
or more rarely:
to explode, cause to explode, or an explosive chemical
or of a disease:
to come on suddenly and intensely