verb [VN]
1 to stop a possibly dangerous or difficult situation from developing, especially by making people less angry or nervous:
Local police are trying to defuse racial tension in the community.
2 to remove the FUSE from a bomb so that it cannot explode:
Police closed the road while they defused the bomb.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for defuse is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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