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





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"Detonate" Quotes from Famous Books



... explosive weapons may be described as devices which, upon activation, cause liquid fuel particles to be dispersed in the form of a detonable cloud in the air and then detonate ...
— U.S. Patent 4,293,314: Gelled Fuel-Air Explosive - October 6, 1981. • Bertram O. Stull
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... In view of the fact that such bomb-dropping is exceedingly inaccurate, and that the charges carried are relatively small, this form of attack ordinarily would not be very dangerous for the submersible. Surface craft have also employed large charges of high explosives, which are caused to detonate by hydrostatic pistons upon reaching a certain depth. Patrol boats carry such charges in order to overrun the submersible, drop the charges in its vicinity, and by the pressure of the underwater explosion ...
— The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner • Georg-Guenther von Forstner
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Words linked to "Detonate" :   fulminate, blow up, change integrity, dynamite, detonation, explode, detonative


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