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re-fuse

verb

Etymology

From re- + fuse. The hyphen is to avoid confusion with refuse.

  1. derived from fūsus
  2. derived from fusée
  3. derived from fuso
  4. prefixed as re-fuse — “re + fuse”

Definitions

  1. To fit with another fuse.

    • The plugs are made of porcelain in one piece, and can readily be re-fused, as with these boards it is not necessary to open a circuit switch to re-fuse a circuit[…]
    • It incorporates the same simple re-fusing device as is used in the standard Ediswan Clix BS 1363 Fused Plug, and the adaptor outlet is shuttered.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for re-fuse. 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