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Detonating

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det·o·nate  (dtn-t)
intr. & tr.v. det·o·nat·ed, det·o·nat·ing, det·o·nates
To explode or cause to explode.

[Latin dtonre, dtont-, to thunder down : d-, de- + tonre, to thunder; see (s)ten- in Indo-European roots.]

deto·nata·ble adj.


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The thunderclaps, treading one on the heels of another and with a strange crackling accompaniment, sounded more like the working of a gigantic electric machine than the usual detonating reverberations.
The gas mixing with the air would have produced a detonating mixture, and the explosion would have finished what the shock had perhaps begun.
The street boys were screaming and hooting, and shouting and shooting, with devils and detonating balls--and there came corpse bearers and hood wearers--for there were funerals with psalm and hymn--and then the din of carriages driving and company arriving: yes, it was, in truth, lively enough down in the street.
 
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