Definitions for detonate

detonate det·o·nate

Spelling: [det-n-eyt]
IPA: /ˈdɛt nˌeɪt/

Detonate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in detonate (adeenott).

Definitions for detonate

verb (used with object)

  1. to cause (something explosive) to explode.

verb (used without object)

  1. to explode with suddenness and violence.

Origin of detonate

1720-30; Latin dētonātus thundered forth (past participle of dētonāre), equivalent to dē- de- + ton(āre) to thunder + -ātus Examples for detonate

The bullets didn't hit him, they were set to detonate a fraction of an inch away.

That a suicide bomber will detonate himself in the middle of Fifth Avenue?

NBC president Warren Littlefield told the writers to construct the episodes to allow Bobby to “detonate” with his impressions.

He was referring to the lone wolves such as ISIS is now urging online to detonate pipe bombs in Times Square.

Times Square, New York City May 1, 2010 Faisal Shahzad Failed attempt to detonate a vehicle bomb in Times Square.

Regulus of Antimony mixed with nitre, and projected into a red-hot crucible, sets the nitre in a flame, and makes it detonate.

Operators on the ground chose to detonate the rocket shortly after launch once it was established that there were problems.

The force of the wind was expected to detonate the explosives by driving a movable board against percussion caps.

As the quantity of contained water increases it becomes difficult or even impossible to detonate by an ordinary blow.

It was fused to detonate at the very tip of the fringes of the planet's atmosphere.

Word Value for detonate
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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