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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of detonate.

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Examples

  • After the 3rd shot, his scope detonated from the shock from his 340 Weatherby Magnum.

    The Rifleman's Badge of Honor 2008

  • Normal thinking, intelligent people who have the gift of sight know for a fact that the Twin Towers where detonated from the base ..

    Think Progress » Rumsfeld Exploits 9/11 To Defend Failed Iraq Policy 2006

  • Normal thinking, intelligent people who have the gift of sight know for a fact that the Twin Towers where detonated from the base.

    Think Progress » Rumsfeld Exploits 9/11 To Defend Failed Iraq Policy 2006

  • This was also a society undergoing huge change and upheaval – phyically as the railways shrank the land and technology changed the world of work from field to factory, mentally as the revelations of Darwin detonated under Christianity.

    Evil Book Thingy Laban 2005

  • This was also a society undergoing huge change and upheaval – phyically as the railways shrank the land and technology changed the world of work from field to factory, mentally as the revelations of Darwin detonated under Christianity.

    Archive 2005-06-12 Laban 2005

  • Eighty percent of all of the IEDs are being identified by the local population, and information is being conveyed about them before they are detonated, which is a much higher percentage -- meaning much greater civilian population cooperation -- than we ever saw in Iraq.

    CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2009 2009

  • The explosions -- explosives inside the cars were detonated, which is how they knew that they had hit their target, they say.

    CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2005 2005

  • DOBBS: And John, to hopefully clarify, when you report that three pieces of luggage, which we saw in the videotape were being detonated, that is the bomb squad presumably adding explosives and exploding those devices, is that correct?

    CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2005 2005

  • The Maryland Emergency Management Agency sent out a bulletin that two packages delivered to state facilities had "detonated" creating small explosions.

    World Watch 2011

  • Again, to use the word "detonated" is not quite accurate, but they were disrupted and no one was injured.

    CNN Transcript May 18, 2002 2002

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