单词 | detonate |
释义 | detonate From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Industry Militarydetonatedet‧o‧nate /ˈdetəneɪt/ verb [intransitive, transitive]PMTIEXPLODEto explode or to make something explode► see thesaurus at explode —detonation /ˌdetəˈneɪʃən/ noun [uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusdetonate• The beauty of C4 is that you can apply pressure or heat and it will not detonate.• At first they were detonated by cables or tripwires.• In court he was a good enough actor to detonate his one-liners with a casual deadliness.• They were detonated just before 8: 30 p. m., when most of the neighborhood business was winding down.• That was their stake and it detonated the kind of politics which are the stuff of socialism in our society.Origin detonate (1700-1800) Latin detonare, from tonare “to thunder” |
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