Definitions for deflagrates

deflagrates def·la·grate

Spelling: [def-luh-greyt]
IPA: /ˈdɛf ləˌgreɪt/

Deflagrates is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 976 anagrams from letters in deflagrates (aadeefglrst).

Definitions for deflagrates

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to burn, especially suddenly and violently.

Origin of deflagrates

1720-30; Latin dēflagrātus (past participle of dēflagrāre to burn down), equivalent to dē- de- + flagr(āre) to burn + -ātus Examples for deflagrates

The matches tipped with it deflagrate with a snapping noise.

Like the nitrates, they deflagrate with inflammable substances, but with greater facility and violence.

They deflagrate when sprinkled on fused nitre, forming carbonate of potash.

Another portion of the residue should deflagrate when saturated with an alkali and projected upon live coals.

They deflagrate like the chlorates when heated with combustibles.

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