Definition of Detonate

Detonate

To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur.

To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report.

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As, Burn, Cause, Explode, Inflame, Niter, Or, Report, Sudden, Sulphur, To, With

Detonate Quotations

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
Jeffrey Sachs

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
Barbara Kruger

No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.
Michael Scheuer

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Detonate Translations

detonate in German is zerknallen, detonieren, explodieren, klopfen
detonate in Italian is battere
detonate in Spanish is latir, detonar
detonate in Swedish is detonera

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