detonatordet‧o‧na‧tor /ˈdetəneɪtə $ -ər/ noun [countable] 
Examples
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word sets- A detonator had failed to set it off.
- Benedita was a six-foot, three-inch detonator who exploded books full of theories and generalizations in minutes.
- It fires beer cans stuffed with concrete and dynamite detonators.
- Later, the guard was forced to put on a belt packed with plastic explosives and connected to a detonator.
- The bomb consisted of 30 sticks of dynamite rigged to three separate detonators.
- The wires had no detonators attached to the ends of them.
- They had some Lewes bombs, but no detonators, and thus could not carry out their mission.
- They jointly chose to ignore their employer's orders and statutory safety regulations, by testing detonators without taking shelter.
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