defuse
/diːˈfjuːz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.88 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Shepard: I wear a lot of hats, Mr. Vargas. Some days I shut down criminals. Some days I defuse nukes. Some days I like to enjoy private vices. You understand me?"
- "The diplomats are trying to defuse the escalating crisis."
- "to defuse a hostage situation"
- "In recent months, those tactics have come to include defensive maneuvers aimed at defusing the media counteroperations of the United States and its allies."
- "As a result of the Santiago Principles and other parallel efforts at education such as the SWF scoreboard that I have featured in my research, a substantial amount of distrust surrounding SWFs has been defused."
- "Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English fuse English defuse From de- + fuse.