The phrase "a defusing of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of reducing tension or conflict in a situation.
Example: "The mediator's role was crucial in facilitating a defusing of the heated argument between the two parties."
Alternatives: "a calming of" or "a resolution of".
In the days since the election, Mr. Gore has repeatedly called for a defusing of the heated language that has inflamed partisans on both sides of the aisle.
It took a while, but Thatcher's endorsement won Gorbachev important credibility in Washington and other western capitals, which ultimately contributed to a defusing of lethal tensions and the liberation of Moscow's empire.
But for both Jews and Catholics, it also took time and a defusing of the larger cause with which they were identified by their enemies, or at least some disavowal of the use of force to pursue that cause.
Instead, administration officials say, the biggest benefit of Mr. Obama's engagement policy now is not dialogue or understanding with adversaries, but simply a defusing of a worldwide view that the United States is part of the problem, a demonstration that the problem is Tehran's intransigence, not Washington's pique.
Now, there is a section in "Catcher" in which Holden fantasizes about shooting the pimp who has set him up with a prostitute, but it is exactly a bit of extended irony about the movies and their effect on everyone's imagination: a defusing of vengeance fantasies.
But Russian security officials caution against interpreting that concession as tacit acceptance of a plan they denounce as "fatal," or even as a defusing of the most destabilizing East-West standoff in the post-Communist era.
I mean the hunger, which invariably comes over the anxiety sufferer, for a definitive conclusion to the sensation: a bright line, a capping off, a total defusing of the anxious charge.
To show them that writing is both bomb and bomb disposal – a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc).
A. It would be an enormous breakthrough if very prominent multinational business leaders, on both sides of the Atlantic, called for a major defusing of these trade tensions -- if they went directly to President Bush and the top political figures in Europe and said, "Guys, let's get beyond this".
It suggests the defusing of a potentially powerful device – in this case the characteristic of being "human".
Foreigners have begun to leave following the defusing of a powerful car bomb outside Tripoli's luxury Radisson Blu hotel on Tuesday.
