defuse
About 0.41 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To remove the fuse from (e.g. a bomb).
- verb To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
The diplomats are trying to defuse the escalating crisis.
- verb To disorder; to make shapeless.
Similar words
remove dispel disarm dissipate eliminate dissolve elimination loosen deactivate shut
Often followed by
the a it this any tensions some them their tension
Word family
defused defuses defusing
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