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单词 detonate
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detonate

And here I was again, standing in her tight embrace, ready to detonate another one of her dreams.He was still priming the timing device and the slightest error could detonate the mine prematurely.She wanted the bomb to detonate at that moment, matching its completion with her own.He would reach the mask and there would be a bomb under it and Bad Hands would detonate it in his face.

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detonate

British English: detonate VERB
If someone detonates a device such as a bomb, or if it detonates, it explodes.
Home-made explosives were detonated.
  • American English: detonate
  • Brazilian Portuguese: detonar
  • Chinese: 引爆
  • European Spanish: detonar
  • French: faire exploser
  • German: detonieren
  • Italian: detonare
  • Japanese: 爆発させる
  • Korean: 폭발시키다
  • European Portuguese: detonar
  • Latin American Spanish: detonar

(verb) 
Definition
to make (an explosive device) explode or (of an explosive device) to explode
The bomb failed to detonate.
Synonyms
set off
Who set off the bomb?
trigger
the incident which triggered the outbreak of the First World War
explode
The first test atomic bomb was exploded in the New Mexico desert.
discharge
He was tried for unlawfully and dangerously discharging a weapon.
blow up
ignite
I ignited a fire as it was getting cold in the cottage.
let off
touch off
(verb) 
Definition
to make (an explosive device) explode or (of an explosive device) to explode
an explosive device which detonated last night
Synonyms
explode
blast
The explosion blasted out the external supporting wall.
discharge
blow up
The bomb blew up over the countryside.
be set off
fulminate
They all fulminated against the new curriculum.
go bang
go boom
burst apart

Additional synonyms

in the sense of blast
Definition
to blow up (a rock, tunnel, etc.) with explosives
The explosion blasted out the external supporting wall.
Synonyms
blow up,
bomb,
destroy,
burst,
ruin,
break up,
explode,
shatter,
demolish,
rupture,
dynamite,
put paid to,
raze to the ground,
blow sky-high
in the sense of blow up
Definition
to explode or cause to explode
The bomb blew up over the countryside.
Synonyms
explode,
burst,
go off,
shatter,
erupt,
detonate
in the sense of discharge
Definition
to fire (a gun)
He was tried for unlawfully and dangerously discharging a weapon.
Synonyms
fire,
shoot,
set off,
explode,
activate,
let off,
detonate,
let loose (informal)

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