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fulgurating - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
Darting or shooting in the manner of lightning; lancinating: as, fulgurating pains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective (Med.) Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
verb Present participle of fulgurate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective sharp and piercing
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It is terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods.
Les Miserables 2008
All the while, however, we pretend that the eternal is unrolling, that the one previous justice, grammar or truth is simply fulgurating , and not being made.
Pragmatism William James 1876
It is terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods.
Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius 1862
It is terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
Its fulgurating pain comes out in shrieks of unlikely laughter.
NYT > Home Page By REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word fulgurating
"Dead from the cancer, and sometimes you still felt a fulgurating sadness over it, even though he really was a super asshole at the end."
- from "Miss Lora" by Junot Díaz, p 63 of the April 23, 2012 edition of the New Yorker
April 24, 2012