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Defuse   /dɪfjˈuz/   Listen
Defuse

verb
1.
Remove the triggering device from.





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"Defuse" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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
... government completed. The new president faces the daunting task of rebuilding a petroleum-based economy, whose revenues have been squandered through corruption and mismanagement, and institutionalizing democracy. In addition, the OBASANJO administration must defuse longstanding ethnic and religious tensions, if it is to build a sound foundation for ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... 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]


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