Associations to the word «Detonate»

Wiktionary

DETONATE, verb. (intransitive) To explode; to blow up. Specifically, to combust supersonically via shock compression.
DETONATE, verb. (transitive) To cause an explosion.

Dictionary definition

DETONATE, verb. Cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb".
DETONATE, verb. Burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon"; "The Molotov cocktail exploded".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope