Word "DEFUSE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
remove the triggering device from

Crossword Clues for DEFUSE

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Calm (a tense situation) (6)
Calm, as a crisis Eugene Sheffer 12 Jul 2025
Nullify, as a threat
Calm is fed back to us English (6)
Relieve fine American stuck in Scottish river (6)
To remove the triggering device of a bomb (6)
Neutralise the detonator reported (6)
Disable detonator when fed up with exploit (6)
Deactivate feuds developing with Spain (6)
Prevent from exploding Universal 06 Jan 2025
Quieten, alleviate (6)
Make the situation safe in order to feed us (6)
Disarm The Times Sunday Concise 15 Dec 2024
Calm or make safe (a dangerous situation) (6)
Make (a bomb) safe (6) Puzzler 02 Dec 2024
Deactivate bomb
Deactivate, as a bomb
Take off the heat and feed us mush (6)
Had food sent back before service to cool (6)
Stop (a bomb) from exploding (6)
Disarm (bomb)
Lessen U.S. feed requiring distribution (6)
What the bomb disposal squad do to take the heat out of the situation (6)
Remove the triggering device (6)
Reduce tension when fed up with employment (6)
Fed up, work to get rid of the cause of tension
Remove risk of explosion. (6)
Disable (a bomb) The Times Concise 24 May 2023
Make harmless, as a bomb Newsday 12 Jul 2022
Neutralize LA Times Daily 14 Apr 2022
Neutralize The Washington Post 14 Apr 2022
US agent coming over to take drugs and render harmless
Reduce tension in defeat: a tyrant's leadership rejected across America
Neutralize The Washington Post 01 Nov 2019
Neutralize LA Times Daily 01 Nov 2019
Endlessly rebel against exploitation — calm down!
Took in fare rises on buses, losing exterior calm
Fed up with American English? Calm down! The Telegraph Toughie 01 Aug 2019
Feed us (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 10 Jan 2019
Neutralize
. Agent backing operation to reduce tension
Render harmless New York Times 02 Oct 2018
Render harmless The New Yorker 23 Jul 2018
Reduce tension in exercise after low marks The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Mar 2018
Render harmless
Make less tense Thomas Joseph 27 Sep 2017
Make harmless Newsday 19 Jan 2017
So settle feuds with ultimate in patience? The Times Cryptic 12 Feb 2015
Law officer reversed deployment to ease tension The Telegraph Toughie 28 Jan 2015
Disarm
Render harmless
Neuter, as a bomb or a tense situation
Make harmless
Render less harmful
Make less dangerous
Make less tense
Render harmless
Make less tense
Turn off, as a bomb
Calm things down
Make a bomb harmless
Neutralize a bomb
Do a minesweeper's job
Make less explosive.
Remove a portfire.
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