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fulgurate: FUHL-gyuh-reyt \ , verb;

1. To flash or dart like lightning.

2. Medicine . To destroy (esp. an abnormal growth) by electricity.

She flashed a glance at him, prepared to fulgurate , but his clean-shaven, dreamy face wore an expression of mere weariness with which she could not quarrel.
-- Marmaduke William Pickthall, Enid: a novel

Origin:

The Latin fulgurāre , "to flash or lighten," is the ancestor of fulgurate .