Usually means: Explodes with force and noise.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. detonates: Merriam-Webster
  2. detonates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. detonates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Detonates, detonates: Wordnik
  5. detonates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. detonates: Wiktionary
  7. detonates: Dictionary.com
  8. detonates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. detonates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detonates: Legal dictionary

(Note: See detonate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (detonate)

verb:  (intransitive) To explode; to blow up. Specifically, to combust or decompose supersonically via shock compression.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to explode.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To express sudden anger.
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