to defuse

Examples

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• Robots that can be remote-controlled are used to explore battlefields to detect mines, enter contaminated buildings, and defuse bombs left by terrorists.

  Academic text (2007)

• Technicians could defuse bombs without risking their lives.

  Academic text (2008)

• How do we defuse the bomb up there?

  Tenet (2020)

• Then I defuse the bomb.

  Déjà Vu (2006)

• I will defuse the bomb.

  Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)

• The bad news is that gives you only five seconds to defuse the bombs.

  Fiction book (1991)

• If we don't defuse that mine, none of us will make it.

  Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020)

• If there's a way to defuse these bombs, I can't find it.

  Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

• I never fired one shot, but my comrades and I defused delayed-action bombs.

  Fiction book (1991)

• On February 28, three days after my arrival in the country, a bomb was defused in a seafood restaurant on Allenby Street in Tel Aviv.

  Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

D

to disarm

vsto defuse

93 3.9

To take weapons from a person or group so they cannot use them

focuses specifically on making an explosive safe by removing its triggering device

N

to neutralize

vsto defuse

• Jargon

49 6.4

To make a military threat unable to act, often by using force

is about making an explosive safe without destroying it

Antonyms

D

to detonate

192 6.5

Cause something like a bomb or firework to explode suddenly and violently

Phrasal Verbs

D

to defuse tension

2 4.5

To make a situation less tense by calming people

How Dangerous

to detonate

192 6.5

to arm

119 3.7

to defuse

21 4.8

shielding

2 4.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology