Similar words: defunct, infuse, confuse, confused, transfuse, effusive, defend, defeat. Meaning: [‚diː'fjuːz] v. remove the triggering device from.
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31. Diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis have been equally chaotic.
32. The first theory is that the move is a safety valve, to defuse popular resentment and a sense of alienation.
33. It's far better to defuse the problem at the start.
34. With an uneasy peace prevailing along the border the international community launched a series of missions to defuse the crisis.
35. An argument broke out in the crowded pub after some drink was knocked over and Mr Brown tried to defuse the situation.
36. Threats of a Lords revolt remain, with Mr Patten's attempts to defuse the row having failed.
37. However, military leaders also apparently counseled Bucaram to leave Quito in order to defuse tensions.
38. And she has tried to defuse the threat which science undoubtedly can pose against creative writing.
39. There were also obvious international reasons to try to defuse crises before they developed.
40. The stratagem on the whole worked and served to defuse hostility to colonial rule.
41. Despite Fiat's efforts to defuse the situation by adopting an ethics code, its problems are not over yet.
42. Or do they bide their time and seek to defuse the situation by negotiations via a mediator?
43. Negotiation could sometimes defuse these situations and produce more acceptable consequences for both parties.
44. So the OK is given for Travis' team to sneak on to the airliner and defuse the situation.
45. Though angry, both sides quickly sought to defuse the controversy.
46. He tries to defuse the issue in three ways.
47. This may defuse some of the anger.
48. Beijing wants emergency multi-national talks to defuse the tension.
49. Cities draw people away from subsistence farming, which is ecologically devastating, and they defuse the population bomb.
50. To defuse future rebellions, reshuffling the top brass may be necessary.
51. The US military is to court-martial four marines accused of the gang rape of a Japanese woman last year,(http://sentencedict.com/defuse.html) in an apparent attempt to defuse anger over a series of alleged crimes by American servicemen.
52. It vastly complicates his attempts to defuse Iran's nuclear program.
53. Another technique reallocates existing servers to defuse overwhelming incoming traffic.
54. He said Frazer, in her discussions with officials of the DRC and Rwanda, will explore ways to defuse regional tensions.
55. Others like Arsene Whinger try to defuse the media away from what happened on the pitch, whilst Rafa Benitez simply confuses them.
56. You will defuse the past and, little by little, you will leave it all behind.
57. After this human beings take over and defuse and remove the mine.
58. Shortly afterwards, an improvised explosive device went off while police were trying to defuse it.
59. Police cordon off the area until the bomb is defuse.
60. Or they can try to adjust the terms to defuse some of the criticisms.
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