detonate
11detonate — [18] Detonate is related to thunder. It comes from the past participle of Latin dētonāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē ‘down’ and tonāre ‘thunder, roar’, which goes back to the same Indo European base (*ten , *ton ) as thunder. Latin …
12detonate — détonner фр. [дэтонэ/] detonieren нем. [дэтони/рэн] detonate англ. [ди/тоунэйт] детонировать см. также détonation …
13detonate — [18] Detonate is related to thunder. It comes from the past participle of Latin dētonāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē ‘down’ and tonāre ‘thunder, roar’, which goes back to the same Indo European base (*ten , *ton ) as thunder. Latin …
14detonate — detonable /det n euh beuhl/, detonatable, adj. detonability, detonatability, n. /det n ayt /, v., detonated, detonating. v.i. 1. to explode with suddenness and violence. v.t. 2. to cause (something explosive) to explode. [1720 30; < L detonatus… …
15detonate — verb a) To explode; to blow up. Specifically, to combust supersonically via shock compression. b) To cause an explosion. Syn: blast, discharge …
16detonate — Synonyms and related words: 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 …
17detonate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. set, touch, or let off; discharge, explode, blow up, shoot [off], fire; go off. See loudness, violence. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. touch off, discharge, explode, blast; see explode 1 , shoot 1 . III… …
18detonate — det|o|nate [ˈdetəneıt] v [I and T] [Date: 1700 1800; : Latin; Origin: detonare, from tonare to thunder ] to explode or to make something explode >detonation [ˌdetəˈneıʃən] n [U] …
19detonate — det|o|nate [ detn,eıt ] verb intransitive or transitive to explode or make something such as a bomb explode …
20detonate — [[t]de̱təneɪt[/t]] detonates, detonating, detonated V ERG If someone detonates a device such as a bomb, or if it detonates, it explodes. [V n] ...the terrorists who planted and detonated the bomb... An explosive device detonated on the roof of… …
