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- detonate (something)
to explode, or to make a bomb or other device explode （使）爆炸；引爆；起爆 Two other bombs failed to detonate. 另外两枚炸弹未引爆。 🔊🔊 The terrorists planned to detonate the device when the shop was empty. 恐怖分子计划在商店空着时引爆该装置。 The bomb was detonated by remote control. 那枚炸弹是遥控引爆的。
Synonyms explodeexplodeTopics War and conflictc2- blow up
- go off
- burst
- erupt
- detonate
- explode to burst (= to break open or apart) loudly and violently, causing damage; to make something burst in this way:
The jet smashed into a hillside and exploded. 喷气式飞机撞上山坡爆炸了。 The bomb was exploded under controlled conditions. 对炸弹实施了可控引爆。
- blow (something) up to be destroyed by an explosion; to destroy something by an explosion:
A police officer was killed when his car blew up. 一名警察在其汽车爆炸时遇难。
- go off (of a bomb) to explode; (of a gun) to be fired:
The bomb went off in a crowded street. 炸弹在挤满人的大街上爆炸了。
- burst to break open or apart, especially because of pressure from inside; to make something break in this way:
That balloon’s going to burst. 那气球马上要爆了。
- erupt
(of a volcano) to throw out burning rocks and smoke; (of burning rocks and smoke) to be thrown out of a volcano. 指（火山）爆发、（岩浆、烟）喷出 - detonate (rather formal
) (of a bomb) to explode; to make a bomb explode: 指（炸弹）爆炸、使（炸弹）爆炸、引爆、起爆 ：Two other bombs failed to detonate. 另外两枚炸弹没有爆炸。
- a bomb explodes/blows up/goes off/bursts/detonates
- a car/plane/vehicle explodes/blows up
- a firework/rocket explodes/goes off
- a gun goes off
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDetonate is used with these nouns as the subject:- bomb
- bomb
- explosive
- mine
- …
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from Latin detonat- ‘thundered down or forth’, from the verb detonare, from de- ‘down’ + tonare ‘to thunder’.