Excruciate vs Fulminate - What's the difference?
excruciate | fulminate |
To inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture.
(obsolete) Excruciated; tortured.
* Chapman
(figuratively) To make a verbal attack.
(figuratively) To issue as a denunciation.
* De Quincey
To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
* 2009 , Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice , Vintage 2010, p. 235:
(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:
As a verb excruciate
is to inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture.As an adjective excruciate
is (obsolete) excruciated; tortured.As a noun fulminate is
.excruciate
English
Verb
(excruciat)Adjective
(en adjective)- And here my heart long time excruciate .
fulminate
English
(wikipedia fulminate)Verb
- They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.
- 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, vilifyNoun
(en noun)- 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.