Usually means: Explode with sudden, intense force.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word Detonate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. detonate: Merriam-Webster
  2. detonate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. detonate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. detonate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. detonate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Detonate, detonate: Wordnik
  7. detonate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. detonate: Wiktionary
  9. detonate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. detonate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. detonate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Detonate, detonate: Dictionary.com
  13. detonate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Detonate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Detonate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. detonate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. detonate: Rhymezone
  18. detonate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. detonate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. detonate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. detonate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. detonate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. detonate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detonate: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detonate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (detonate)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To explode; to blow up. Specifically, to combust or decompose supersonically via shock compression.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to explode.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To express sudden anger.

Similar:
blow up, explode, set off, detonize, displode, blow, 'splode, go off, blow off, let off, more...

Opposite:
defuse, dampen, quell, subdue, pacify, appease, calm, quiet, still, hush

Types:
explode, implode, detonation, detonator, bomb, bombing, bombardment, bombard, more...

Phrases:
to throw and detonate, more...

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Similar:
blow up, explode, set off, detonize, displode, blow, 'splode, go off, blow off, let off, more...

Opposite:
defuse, dampen, quell, subdue, pacify, appease, calm, quiet, still, hush

Types:
explode, implode, detonation, detonator, bomb, bombing, bombardment, bombard, more...

Phrases:
to throw and detonate, more...

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     black,     gray, more...



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