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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Detonize

Dēt'o-nīze, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. DETONIZED; p. pr. & vb. n. DETONIZING.] (Chem.) To cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to calcine with detonation.

Dĕt'o-nīze, v. i.

verbintransitive

(Chem.) To explode; to burn with a sudden report; to detonate. This precipitate . . . detonizes with a considerable noise. Fourcroy.