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Defuse   Listen
verb
defuse  v. t.  
1.
To disorder; to make shapeless. (Obs.)
2.
To remove the fuse from; to deactivate (a bomb or other explosive device) or make it ineffective.
Synonyms: deactivate.
3.
To make less dangerous; as, to defuse a tense confrontation between demonstrators and police.





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"Defuse" Quotes from Famous Books



... but as well I other accents borrow, That can my speech defuse, my good intent May carry through itself to that full issue For which I rais'd my likeness.—Now, banish'd Kent, If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd, So may it come, thy master, whom thou lov'st, Shall find ...
— The Tragedy of King Lear • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... the Ludmilla. As I say, it was too good an opportunity to miss. We wanted to find out just how long it would take us to figure out the nature of the bomb—which we didn't know in detail—after it was dropped here. So we had our people in Gdynia defuse the thing after it was put on board the ship, but otherwise leave it ...
— One-Shot • James Benjamin Blish


Words linked to "Defuse" :   take away, remove, take, fuse, withdraw, defusing


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