detonate

Definitions


[ˈdɛtəneɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- explode or cause to explode
(e.g: two other bombs failed to detonate)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 18th century: from Latin detonat- ‘thundered down or forth’, from the verb detonare, from de- ‘down’ + tonare ‘to thunder’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries