Fulminate vs Maraud - What's the difference?
fulminate | maraud |
(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:
To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder.
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, passage= Peace Plunder , Peace, you Rogue; no Moroding now i we'll burn, rob, demolish and murder another time together : This is a Bus'ness must be done with decency.
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, passage= in one of which they met with a party of French that had been marauding , and made them all prisoners at discretion.
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To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner.
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, chapter= Fables for Grown Gentlemen
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, editor= Tobias George Smollett
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, passage= A flea out of a blanket shaken, A bloody-minded sinner, Upon a taylor's neck was taken, Marauding for a dinner.
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To raid and pillage.
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, publisher= Baudry, at the Foreign Library
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, page= 118-9
, passage= As the tract of country they intended to maraud was far in the Moorish territories near the coast of the Mediterranean, they did not arrive until late in the following day.
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As verbs the difference between fulminate and maraud
is that fulminate is to make a verbal attack while maraud is to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder.As a noun fulminate
is any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.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.
maraud
English
Verb
(en verb)- a marauding band