detonate
verb/ˈdɛtəˌneɪt/
Frequency rank: #13,299 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
to explode or cause something to explode suddenly and violently.
Example sentence
The engineers had to detonate the old bridge in a controlled explosion.
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