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be defused
verb
To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.).
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"Weapons of mass destruction" must be defused.
This Arab opposition must be defused in the weeks ahead.
That's the gross thing, the thing that must be defused".
Only that way will the sex scandal be defused.
These could ease the tension, and the threat from Mr Besigye may be defused.
They further teach that if conflict cannot be defused, one should retreat.
If French discontent cannot be defused, early parliamentary elections cannot be ruled out.
In the next couple of years, the bomb will either be defused or detonated.
A chinking time bomb may be defused, but it will rattle.
In addition, the Taj was littered with unexploded grenades, which had to be defused.
The likelihood is that the Armenia-Azerbaijan clashes can be defused, for now at least.
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