- Newsday Crossword
- September 11 2022
- Detonation
Detonation
We have found the following answers matching the query 'Detonation' in our database: For more stats and recent usage scroll down and continue reading. Detonation crossword clue was last seen on September 11 2022 in the popular Newsday Crossword.
| Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | | 99% | BLAST | Detonation | Newsday |
| 20% | BOOM | Detonation sound | USA Today |
Definition
| • | A violent gust of wind. |
| • | A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast. |
| • | The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast. |
| • | The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath. |
| • | A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight. |
| • | The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose. |
| • | A flatulent disease of sheep. |
| • | To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel. |
| • | Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character. |
| • | To confound by a loud blast or din. |
| • | To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks. |
| • | To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom. |
| • | To blow; to blow on a trumpet. |
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