0 past simple and past participle of defuse --
2 to make a difficult or dangerous situation calmer by reducing or removing its cause: --
The debate over who might be an honest brokerwas defused.
A substantial number of devices have been defused.
It enables problems to be defused; it enables standards to be maintained and, perhaps most importantly, it enables children to be protected.
However, in a subsequent search of the store they found and defused a 100 lb.
The prospect of enlargement has resolved centuries-old conflicts, settled border problems and defused minority issues.
With this report, we have defused justified concerns about a reduction in the standard of passenger traffic with fixed priority regulations for freight traffic.
The growing frustration and resentment must be defused before they explode and damage the whole world.
Our troops have rebuilt bridges, reopened roads and defused dozens of small local crises that never reach the newspapers.
