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Antonyms for detonate

Grammar : Verb
Spell : det-n-eyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛt nˌeɪt


Definition of detonate

Origin :
  • 1729, a back-formation from detonation, or else from Latin detonatus, past participle of detonare. Related: Detonated; detonating.
  • verb set off bomb
Example sentences :
  • It was fused to detonate at the very tip of the fringes of the planet's atmosphere.
  • Extract from : « Talents, Incorporated » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • The bullets didn't hit him, they were set to detonate a fraction of an inch away.
  • Extract from : « Tangle Hold » by F. L. Wallace
  • The force of the wind was expected to detonate the explosives by driving a movable board against percussion caps.
  • Extract from : « Meteorology » by Charles Fitzhugh Talman
  • Regulus of Antimony mixed with nitre, and projected into a red-hot crucible, sets the nitre in a flame, and makes it detonate.
  • Extract from : « Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed. » by Pierre Joseph Macquer
  • As the quantity of contained water increases it becomes difficult or even impossible to detonate by an ordinary blow.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 » by Various
  • On October 3, among the hints for experiments in the Note-Book is this, to detonate together hydrogen and oxymuriatic acid.
  • Extract from : « The Royal Institution » by Bence Jones
  • Ton, half-ton and two-ton bombs began to detonate, fifty fathoms down.
  • Extract from : « Talents, Incorporated » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • A mixture of this kind will detonate with a slight blow or friction.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • He then unscrewed the fuze and threw it away before it could detonate the shell.
  • Extract from : « The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918 » by Frederick William Bewsher
  • They are very difficult to detonate, and if set on fire do not explode like gunpowder.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 » by Various

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