Crossword-Solution: DETONATED 9 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Detonated imp. & p. p. of Detonate

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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DETONATED (5)

Three weeks later, on 6 August, the first uranium-fueled nuclear bomb, a gun-type weapon code-named LITTLE BOY, was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Project Trinity 1945-1946 Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer 1996
Furthermore, scientists were reasonably confident that the gun-type uranium-fueled device could be successfully detonated, but they did not know if the more complex firing technology required in an implosion device would work.
Project Trinity 1945-1946 Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer 1996
After the TRINITY device had been detonated, the aircraft would circle near ground zero, while the men onboard would measure the atmospheric effects of the nuclear explosion.
Project Trinity 1945-1946 Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer 1996
For example, what was probably man's most extensive modification of the global environment to date occurred in September 1962, when a nuclear device was detonated 250 miles above Johnson Island.
Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency 1996
When a weapon is detonated at the surface of the earth or at low altitudes, the heat pulse vaporizes the bomb material, target, nearby structures, and underlying soil and rock, all of which become entrained in an expanding, fast-rising fireball.
Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency 1996

Quotes with DETONATED (3)

Cover me!' Augustus said as he jumped out from behind the wall and raced toward the school. Isaac fumbled for his controller and thenstarted firing while the bullets rained down on Augustus, who was shot once and then twice but still ran, Augustus shouting,'YOU CAN’T KILL MAX MAYHEM!' and with a final flurry of button combinations, he dove onto the grenade, which detonated beneath him. His dismembered body exploded like a geyser and the screen went red. A throaty voice said, …
John Green The Fault in Our Stars
It's going to happen soon, a nuclear war. Someday, somewhere, some jackass politician will get in over his head and push the button, and us? Society? We haven't really grasped the full reality of the situation. If a nuclear bomb were detonated, we'd all just be collateral damage. That's why it has to be prevented, because trust me when I say that nobody will be standing up for our rights or life when there's no one left to do so.
Rebecca McNutt
Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.
Karan Mahajan The Association of Small Bombs
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1950–2021).