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See detonate and -ize.

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detonize (third-person singular simple present detonizes, present participle detonizing, simple past and past participle detonized)

  1. (archaic) To explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “detonize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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