Detonate and Launch

Detonate

Detonate verb - To break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure.

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Launch and detonate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Launch" instead a verb "Detonate".

Nearby Words: detonation, detonating, detonator

Launch verb - To be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of.

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Detonate and launch are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Detonate" instead a verb "Launch".

Nearby Words: launched, launching, launcher, launchable

series	detonate series	launch series
bomb	detonate bomb	launch bomb
way	detonate way	launch way
game	detonate game	launch game
Other words: craft, car, weapon, missile, star, rocket, nuke, missiles, bombs, torpedoes, nukes.

Spider Mines an Widow Mines are spider ... well, mines (they burrow and then detonate/launch a missile) ... not so much tanks.

Source: Spider Tank
Also in the same scene, barrels of flammable liquid are not ignited by gunfire, and they do not detonate and launch like missiles using the bullet holes as exhaust ports.

Source: Film / Lethal Weapon
In one of the versions of Mazinger Z, there was one lever on Hell Island served to launch the island spacewards and detonate it.

Source: Inventional Wisdom

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