Usually means: Reduce tension or danger effectively.
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  1. defuse: Merriam-Webster
  2. defuse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defuse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defuse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. defuse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Defuse, defuse: Wordnik
  7. defuse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. defuse: Wiktionary
  9. defuse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. defuse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. defuse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Defuse, defuse: Dictionary.com
  13. defuse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Defuse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Defuse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. defuse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. defuse: Rhymezone
  18. defuse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. defuse: FreeDictionary.org
  20. defuse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. defuse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. defuse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. defuse: Encyclopedia

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verb:  (transitive) To remove the fuse from (e.g. a bomb).
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
verb:  (obsolete) To disorder; to make shapeless.

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