Fulminate vs Sizzle - What's the difference?
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(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 make the sound of water hitting a hot surface
to be exciting or dazzling
(countable) the sound of water hitting a hot surface
(uncountable) zing, zip, or pizazz; excitement.
Fulminate is a related term of sizzle.
As nouns the difference between fulminate and sizzle
is that fulminate is while sizzle is (countable) the sound of water hitting a hot surface.As a verb sizzle is
to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface.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.
sizzle
English
Verb
(sizzl)- The song sizzled with energy.
Noun
- We heard the sizzle of the onions hitting the pan.
- Her performance had a lot of sizzle .
