fulgurating

American  

[fuhl-gyuh-rey-ting] / ˈfʌl gyəˌreɪ tɪŋ /

adjective

Medicine/Medical.

1. (of pains) sharp and piercing.

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fulgurating British  

/ ˈfʌlɡjʊˌreɪtɪŋ /

adjective

1. pathol (of pain) sudden and sharp; piercing

2. surgery of or relating to fulguration

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Etymology

Origin of fulgurating

First recorded in 1670–80; fulgurat(e) + -ing ²

Example Sentences

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 The New Yorker • Apr. 16, 2012

It is terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

The fulgurating Revelation set all his unknowing aspirations in a blaze and fanned the flame of the latent forces stored in his soul during fifteen years of contemplation.

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Dinet, Etienne

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.

From Pragmatism by James, William