Crossword-Solution: DETONATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Detonate | v. i. | To explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur. |
| Detonate | v. t. | To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report. |
We have 38 clues for the answer “DETONATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Light the fuse | 1 answer |
| Explode with violence | 1 answer |
| Famed (rev.) Consumed = Go off | 1 answer |
| Explode with suddenness | 1 answer |
| Explode violently | 1 answer |
| Go off, as explosives | 1 answer |
| Push a certain plunger | 1 answer |
| Set off a charge | 1 answer |
| Set off an explosion | 1 answer |
| Set off the charge | 1 answer |
| Set off, as explosives | 1 answer |
| Set off, in a big way | 1 answer |
| What cannon do. | 1 answer |
| Explode with sudden violence. | 1 answer |
| Cause to explode | 2 answers |
| Go off, as a bomb | 2 answers |
| Go boom | 3 answers |
| thunder forth | 4 answers |
| AN EXPLOSIVE CHARGE THAT PROPELS A ROCKET | 10 answers |
| CHURN plunger | 12 answers |
| Fulminate | 13 answers |
| Dynamite | 16 answers |
| go off | 23 answers |
| MAKE a loud noise | 30 answers |
| Explode | 41 answers |
| Ignite | 42 answers |
| Erupt | 47 answers |
| Blow up. | 49 answers |
| set off | 51 answers |
| Burst | 53 answers |
| MAKE harsh noise | 57 answers |
| dislodge | 57 answers |
| BLAST ___ | 58 answers |
| Kindle | 63 answers |
| flash | 89 answers |
| BLOW ___ | 89 answers |
| Move | 93 answers |
| Shoot | 106 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DETONATE (5)
Again we are warned, that the infection has continued to spread and that some strains of the virus are programmed to detonate over a period of years.
The firing of one balloon is sufficient to detonate the whole, for the simple reason that hydrogen gas is continuously oozing through the bags in which it is contained.
The rocks were set some distance away from the tunnel camp, and Tom attached the electric wires that were to detonate the charge.
What the self-sufficient German could not see was plain to Jane Clayton--that the sympathies of Obergatz' native soldiers lay with the villagers and that all were so heartily sickened by his abuse that it needed now but the slightest spark to detonate the mine of revenge and hatred that the pig-headed Hun had been assiduously fabricating beneath his own person.
And in many cases apparently the insulation of the tabooed person is recommended as a precaution not merely for his own sake but for the sake of others; for since the virtue of holiness or taboo is, so to say, a powerful explosive which the smallest touch may detonate, it is necessary in the interest of the general safety to keep it within narrow bounds, lest breaking out it should blast, blight, and destroy whatever it comes into contact with.
Quotes with DETONATE (3)
Most of the words we use in history and everyday speech are like mental depth charges. As they descend [through our consciousness] and detonate, their resonant power is unleashed, showering our understanding with fragments of accumulated meaning and association.
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction, but the remotest possibility must always be considered that the energy once liberated will be completely uncontrollable and by its intense violence detonate all neighbouring substances. In this event, the whole of the hydrogen on earth might be transformed at onc…
Far to our left I could see a commercial airliner on final approach to Soekarno-Hatta. Far to our right I could see the outline of tall city buildings. The imagery was hard to ignore. In the midst was an impoverished world filled with dangerous radicals. Some believed it was God’s will to crash airplanes into buildings. Some recruited children to self-detonate on buses and in coffee shops. It must be incredibly difficult to hold fast to hope when you live in such a world. It’…
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1947–2020).