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Rant vs Fulminate - What's the difference?

rant | fulminate |

As nouns the difference between rant and fulminate

is that rant is a criticism done by ranting while fulminate is .

As a verb rant

is to speak or shout at length in an uncontrollable anger.

rant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A criticism done by ranting.
  • A wild, incoherent, emotional articulation.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To speak or shout at length in an uncontrollable anger.
  • To criticize by ranting.

    • See also

    * rave

    External links

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    Anagrams

    * * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Verb

    (head)

    • fulminate

    English

    (wikipedia 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.

    Related terms

    * fulmination * fulminator * fulminatory * fulminic * mercury fulminate English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs ----