Defuse
Pronunciation
- IPA: /diËˈfjuËz/
- Rhymes: -uËz
Origin 1
Verb
- To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.).
- To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪˈfjuËz/
- Rhymes: -uËz
- Homophones: diffuse
Origin 2
Compare diffuse.
Full definition of defuse
Verb
- (obsolete) To disorder; to make shapeless.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, , I. iv. 2:If but as well I other accents borrow
That can my speech defuse,