detonated

Variant of detonate

intransitive verb detonated, detonating

to explode violently and noisily

Origin: < L detonatus, pp. of detonare, to thunder < de-, intens. + tonare, to thunder

transitive verb

to cause (a bomb, dynamite, etc.) to explode

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