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detonate

verb as in set off bomb

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The exercise is supposed to help us embrace our body’s capacity for pleasure, shed sexual shame and detonate inhibitions.

A Lancaster teen was sentenced to four years in prison after making more than 375 hoax calls that included threats to detonate bombs, conduct mass shootings and “kill everyone he saw,” authorities said.

Mr Wiren told the BBC that there was no evidence bombs had been detonated, but said there was thick smoke that could have come from the suspect setting fires or smoke grenades.

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Mary's statement recalled that the day had begun like "any normal Saturday" and she was in a shop with Brenda when the bomb detonated.

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They were on duty when the car they were travelling in drove over a bomb that had been hidden in the road and was detonated by remote control.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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