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Feed : fulgurar - to gleam, to flash, to fulgurate
« on: 21 Oct, 2021, 01:20:58 pm »
fulgurar - to gleam, to flash, to fulgurate

Spanish example: Los ojos del muchacho fulguraron de entusiasmo.

English example: The boy's eyes gleamed with enthusiasm.
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Re: Feed : fulgurar - to gleam, to flash, to fulgurate
« Reply #1 on: 21 Oct, 2021, 05:22:45 pm »
Not often that I come across an entirely new word in English

fulgurate
/ˈfʌlɡjʊreɪt/
verb
verb: fulgurate; 3rd person present: fulgurates; past tense: fulgurated; past participle: fulgurated; gerund or present participle: fulgurating

    1.
    Medicine
    destroy (small growths or areas of tissue) using diathermy.
    "a high-frequency electric current is applied to fulgurate the biological tissue"
    2.
    literary
    flash like lightning.
    "the cut-glass chandeliers fulgurated"