detonated
Meaning
of Detonate
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
I would have, had someone not detonated their charges prematurely. (Nykyrian) Yeah, Cruel. You have to watch that premature detonation problem of yours. (Hauk)
If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.
I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.
Able was detonated on 1 July 1946.
A charge of a specific size is detonated and its impulse (the area under the pressure-time curve) measured as a function of distance.
A larger variation of the same design which Sakharov worked on was the 50 Mt Tsar Bomba of October 1961, which was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated.