Fulminate

 WORD OF THE DAY

fulminate / verb / FULL-muh-nayt

Definition
1: to utter or send out with denunciation
2: to send forth censures or invectives
3: an often explosive salt (such as mercury fulminate) containing the group −CNO

Examples
"Talking heads on both the right and the left now are fulminating about the labor shortage."
— John Krull, The Republic (Columbus, Indiana), 28 July 2021

Like the town of Simons, Dolgeville also fielded an amateur baseball team, and had an official post office, a bank, and a firehouse, where locals met in 1906 to fulminate about the brothels and saloons thriving outside of the town limits.
— Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2021

Did You Know?
Lightning strikes more than once in the history of fulminate.
That word comes from the Latin fulminare, meaning "to strike," a verb usually used to refer to lightning strikes—it is struck from fulmen, Latin for "lightning."
When fulminate was taken up by English speakers in the 15th century, it lost much of its ancestral thunder and was used largely as a technical term for the issuing of formal denunciations by ecclesiastical authorities.
In time, its original lightning spark returned, describing intense strikes of a tirade.