• v.
    ⦿burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
    lexical concept
  • The Molotov cocktail exploded
  • the bomb detonated at noon

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:blow up
  2. enl:detonate
  3. enl:explode
wn:interlingual indexili:i23256

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • blow updetonateexplode
  • detonate