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detonate
The authorities were also concerned Tsarnaev might detonate an explosive device.
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Minesweepers are equipped with mechanical or influence sweeps to detonate mines.
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The former gang member is accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive device.
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And as Allen Fieldhouse began to detonate, McLemore began to run back on defense.
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Quick action by other passengers thwarted his alleged attempt to detonate them.
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Rumors of the scandal finally prompted Forlani himself to detonate the explosion.
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The patrols find two unexploded rockets in fields, which the soldiers detonate.
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C-4 is a highly stable compound which requires a booster in order to detonate.
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Those that don't detonate right away may do so later at the slightest disturbance.
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- Explode: cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
- Burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon"; "The Molotov cocktail exploded"
- (detonation) the act of detonating an explosive
- Detonation involves an supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it. They are observed in both conventional solid and liquid explosives, as well as in reactive gases. ...
- (Detonation (band)) Detonation is a Dutch melodic death metal band, with members from the Netherlands and the United States. In recent years the band has gravitated towards a melodic death metal sound.
- : To explode; to blow up. Specifically, to combust supersonically via shock compression; : To cause an explosion
- (detonation) An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances as, the detonation of gun cotton. ...
- (detonated) To explode or cause to explode
- (Detonation) The almost instantaneous release of heat energy from fuel in an engine caused by the fuel-air mixture reaching its critical pressure and temperature. It is an explosion rather than a smooth burning process. More
