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Anathematize vs Fulminate - What's the difference?

anathematize | fulminate |

As a verb anathematize

is to cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.

As a noun fulminate is

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anathematize

English

Alternative forms

* anathematise

Verb

  • To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.
  • *1850 , , White Jacket , ch. 3:
  • *:These are the fellows that some officers never pretend to damn, however much they may anathematize others.
  • *1907 , , Rowdy of the Cross L , ch. 9:
  • *:Rowdy had been heard, more than once lately, to anathematize viciously the prairie-dogs for standing on their tails and chipchip-chipping at them as they went by.
  • *2009 , Candace de Russy, " Madness, Thy Name Is 'Stimulus'," American Thinker , 13 Feb. (retrieved 21 Feb. 2009):
  • *:Harvard economist Robert Barro anathematized it as "probably the worst bill that has been put forth since the 1930s" and, in a word, "garbage."
  • Synonyms

    * condemn, damn, deprecate, excoriate, vilify

    Derived terms

    * anathematization * anathematizer

    fulminate

    Verb

  • (figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
  • (figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
  • * De Quincey
  • They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.
  • To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
  • * 2009 , Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice , Vintage 2010, p. 235:
  • the present owners couldn't afford the electric bills anymore, several amateur gaffers, sad to say, having already been fulminated trying to bootleg power in off the municipal lines.

    Synonyms

    * (verbal attack) berate, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, vilify

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
  • * 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 193:
  • On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.