Fulminate, Fulminic & Detonate

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–verb (used without object) 

1. to explode with a loud noise; detonate.

2. to issue denunciations or the like (usually fol. by against): The minister fulminated [against] legalized vice.  



–verb (used with object)

3. to cause to explode.

4. to issue or pronounce with vehement denunciation, condemnation, or the like. 

–noun

5. one of a group of unstable, explosive compounds derived from fulminic acid, esp. the mercury salt of fulminic acid, which is a powerful detonating agent. 



fulminic

–adjective 

1. highly explosive; unstable.

2. of or derived from fulminic acid. 





　

Like Danny, the movie fulminates with inchoate thoughts and proceeds with more energy than coherence. 



Danny hates Judaism; he's protective [of] it. He identifies with Hitler in part because the Nazis recognized the importance of the Jews. 



He's frustrated because the fascists he's befriended aren't that interested in persecuting Jews. ''Forget the Jewish stuff,'' one of the leaders tells him. ''It doesn't play anymore.'' 





napalm

The label of one, Napalm Girl, features a [silhouette] of the famous Vietnam-era photo of the girl running naked from her [napalmed] village.

Watching the spectacular Wagnerian helicopter [napalm] scene from Apocalypse Now,

strafe

that they're strafed by U.S. [bombers] only adds to the solipsism.

maroon

pyrotechnic

director Paul Thomas Anderson and his crew tested the pyrotechnical [effects] of the oil [derrick] fire

Pyrotechnic