Defuse

Pronunciation

• IPA: /diːˈfjuːz/
• Rhymes: -uːz

- + fuse

Verb

1. To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.).
2. To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.

Related terms

• defusion
• defusive
• defuze

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪˈfjuːz/
• Rhymes: -uːz
• Homophones: diffuse

Compare diffuse.

Full definition of defuse

Verb

1. (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,