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the defusing
verb
To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.).
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Bomb-detection techniques and the defusing of explosives remain important skills for military units and security forces there.
While he was in hospital after an injury, his heart condition was discovered: he relinquished his commission in 1944 and took up the defusing of bombs.
Foreigners have begun to leave following the defusing of a powerful car bomb outside Tripoli's luxury Radisson Blu hotel on Tuesday.
She looks wary at the start, before the thieves creep in, and she looks freaked out at the finish, as though the defusing of one threat were merely a rehearsal for the next.
The Guardian's Julian Borger is in Geneva: Julian Borger (@julianborger) Lavrov says four parties in #Geneva have agreed on a plan for the defusing of tensions in Eastern Ukraine.
Based on the analysis of the experimental and modeling results, two intrinsic factors determining the ELCF properties were concluded: the capacity of ELCF damage, and the defusing and dispersion ability of the external mechanical work.
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Ms Shinawatra had called the election in the hope of defusing the crisis.
Then the Republicans in the Assembly defused the Verniero powder keg.
The police defused the bomb on the spot and never bothered to clear the station, Victoria Terminus.
"It has the effect of defusing the pressure," he said.
Lincoln averted potential British intervention in the war by defusing the Trent Affair in late 1861.
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