defuse
verb/diːˈfjuːz//dɪˈfjuːz/
Etymology
Definitions
To remove the fuse from (e.g. a bomb).
- Shepard: I wear a lot of hats, Mr. Vargas. Some days I shut down criminals. Some days I defuse nukes. Some days I like to enjoy private vices. You understand me?
To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
- to defuse a hostage situation
- In recent months, those tactics have come to include defensive maneuvers aimed at defusing the media counteroperations of the United States and its allies.
- As a result of the Santiago Principles and other parallel efforts at education such as the SWF scoreboard that I have featured in my research, a substantial amount of distrust surrounding SWFs has been defused.
To disorder
To disorder; to make shapeless.
- If but as well I other accents borrow / That can my speech defuse,
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for defuse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA