detonate: [18] Detonate is related to thunder. It comes from the past participle of Latin dētonāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē- ‘down’ and tonāre ‘thunder, roar’, which goes back to the same Indo-European base (*ten-, *ton-) as thunder. Latin dētonāre never actually meant ‘cause to explode’, though; that sense comes from its French descendant détoner. => thunder
detonate (v.)
1729, a back-formation from detonation, or else from Latin detonatus, past participle of detonare. Related: Detonated; detonating.
实用例句
1. Two other bombs failed to detonate.
另外两枚炸弹未引爆。
来自《权威词典》
2. An engineer tried to detonate the mine.
一名工程师试图引爆地雷.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. France is expected to detonate its first nuclear device in the next few days.
法国预计将在几天后引爆其首枚核装置。
来自柯林斯例句
4. The only sure way was to walk up to him, camouflaged bomb in hand, and detonate.
唯一十拿九稳的办法就是,走到他面前, 手里拿着伪装起来的炸弹, 引爆它.
来自辞典例句
5. Nitroguanicline may be regarded as an explosive which is powerful, but difficult to detonate.
