detonate

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  1. intransitive and transitive verb To explode or cause to explode.

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  • One night—inevitably, I suppose—a series of nukes failed to detonate, and the Reviled breached the perimeters. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#214
  • No If the stuff should detonate, we would be no better off here. —  016 - The King Maker
  • Secondaries generally need the shock of another HE to detonate, such as Ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene (TNT) and Sodium chlorate, and often a sensitiser, such as oil for AN and vaseline for SC. —  The Explosives and Weapons Forum: AP Plasticizer
  • They don't give of water vapors and they generate alot of heat as they detonate(highly exothermic). —  The Explosives and Weapons Forum: Let's outshine the sun
  • The bombs failed to detonate, and Al-Jawary quickly fled the country before being arrested nearly 20 years later. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
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detonate:   detonating ·  detonated
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin dētonāre, dētonāt-, to thunder down : dē-, de- + tonāre, to thunder; see (s)tenə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin detonatus, past participle of detonare (later F. détoner = Spanish Portuguese detonar), thunder, from de- intensive + tonare, thunder: see thunder.
 

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/ˈdɛtəneɪt/
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