Definitions for detonators

detonators det·o·na·tor

Spelling: [det-n-ey-ter]
IPA: /ˈdɛt nˌeɪ tər/

Detonators is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 788 anagrams from letters in detonators (adenoorstt).

Definitions for detonators

noun

  1. a device, as a percussion cap, used to make another substance explode.
  2. something that explodes.

Origin of detonators

First recorded in 1815-25; detonate + -or2

Examples for detonators

After agents went into the van and confirmed that the detonator had been activated, they arrested him.

Then we can park the jeep off the road next to the detonator.

I was the one to trigger the detonator, and for that I take full responsibility.

It was to destroy itself; the Solarite would merely be the detonator to set it off!

This ignition fired a detonator, which in turn fired the dynamite.

The instant he brought the wires in contact, the detonator went off.

“I press the detonator and I am the only one responsible,” Trierweiler writes of the tweet, as excerpted Wednesday in Le Monde.

The pressing of this ball actuates a detonator inside the flask I carry in my pocket.

I like to say that I was like a bomb but the detonator was missing.

But this is only a single barrel, and an old-fashioned sort of detonator.

Word Value for detonators
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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