¿Cómo se dice "fulminados" en inglés?

Question

I can't figure out what "fulminados" means in Spanish. If anyone knows please let me know.

Thanks

Answer 1

Double click the word. No definition is given. (fulminados =fulminados) Click on one of the "fulminados". You will be taken to the dictionary where it is defined.

By the way, always try to provide context when asking what a word means.

Answer 2

fulminado [fool-me-nah’-do]

1. Wounded by lightning.

   • -Fulminado -> da, pp

this is the definition on our dictionary, which is insufficient.

Most of the time, it means, that something happens very fast, very sudden, as if struck by lightening.

Fue cesado fulminantemente. He was ceased on the spot (possibly there is a better translation??)

Cayó fulminado. He was shot, he had a heartattack......

Please provide context.

Answer 3

While we are waiting for context, let me also suggest that our dictionary definition requires some study. "Fulminado" is the past participle of the verb "fulminar". I suspect that would make "fulminado" an adjective (requiring agreement in gender and number with a noun) and another of the meanings of fulminate is:

• to make severe criticism,
• to condemn openly or vehemently, or
• to complain bitterly or vehemently

It may be in this sense that Aplotkin, the question's author, encountered the word "fulminados." If so, I would also expect "fulminado" to be used together with, say, "contra algo" in much the same way it is used in English to "fulminate against something."

For me, fulmination is for authors and not for speakers. If I heard this in a conversation, I'd be heading for the bar to get a drink and to find a new group to chat with. Maybe I would just "rag" mercilessly on the speaker for pompous language.