The Only Use
fulminate
in
Brave New World
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- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(fulminate as in: fulminate against the plan) to criticize severely
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(2)
(fulminate as in: the nitroglycerin fulminated) to explode, cause to explode, or an explosive chemical
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Fulminate can be sued to describe a disease that comes on suddenly and intensely.