Usually means: Initiating explosive reaction causing blast.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word detonating:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. detonating: Merriam-Webster
  2. detonating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. detonating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Detonating, detonating: Wordnik
  5. detonating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. detonating: Wiktionary
  7. Detonating, detonating: Dictionary.com
  8. detonating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Detonating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. detonating: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. detonating: Rhymezone
  12. Detonating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. detonating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. detonating: FreeDictionary.org
  15. Detonating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detonating: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See detonate as well.)

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adjective:  (of munitions) going off ("A spectacular display of detonating anti-tank mines")


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