Detonate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Detonate \Det"o*nate\, v. t.
     To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a
     sudden report.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Detonate \Det"o*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Detonated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Detonating}.] [L. detonare, v. i., to thunder down;
     de + tonare to thunder; akin to E. thunder. See {Thunder},
     and cf. {Detonize}.]
     To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with
     sulphur.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  detonate
       v 1: cause to explode; "We exploded the nuclear bomb" [syn: {explode},
             {blow up}, {set off}]
       2: explode; "the bomb detonated at noon"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "detonate":
     backfire, bang, bark, blast, blow out, blow up, burst, bust,
     charge, coal, cock, crack, discharge, drop, eject, explode, feed,
     fell, fill up, fire, fire off, fuel, fuel up, fulminate, go off,
     gun, gun for, hit, let fly, let off, load, mushroom, oil, pelt,
     pepper, pick off, pistol, plug, pop, pot, potshoot, potshot, prime,
     refuel, riddle, set off, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, snipe, stoke,
     strike, take a potshot, top off, torpedo, touch off