Usually means: Make less harmful or threatening.
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  1. defang: Merriam-Webster
  2. defang: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defang: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defang: Collins English Dictionary
  5. defang: Vocabulary.com
  6. defang: Wordnik
  7. defang: Wiktionary
  8. defang: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. defang: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. defang: Dictionary.com
  11. defang: Rhymezone
  12. defang: FreeDictionary.org
  13. defang: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. defang: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defang)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To remove the fangs from (something).
▸ verb:  (figuratively) To render harmless.

Similar:
unfang, defin, defur, defeather, defuse, deflea, declaw, defuel, unmuzzle, unfence, more...

Opposite:
envenom, arm, strengthen, empower, fortify

Types:
remove fangs from, make harmless, weaken, render toothless, more...

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Similar:
unfang, defin, defur, defeather, defuse, deflea, declaw, defuel, unmuzzle, unfence, more...

Opposite:
envenom, arm, strengthen, empower, fortify

Types:
remove fangs from, make harmless, weaken, render toothless, more...



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