defuse

Object

• bomb: Say " Bravo defuse bomb " to have someone defuse a bomb.
• tension: Fourth, a weaker dollar might defuse global trade tensions.
• confrontation: Use humor whenever you can: a light-hearted remark can defuse a potentially tense confrontation.
• situation: I will attempt to use humor to defuse the situation.
• crisis: The need, to quote the progress report, to " defuse the identity crisis " is a recent development.

Subject

• officer: A bomb left by the IRA on a platform of the railroad station in Aldershot, England, was defused by explosives officers.

Modifying Another Word

• successfully: Finally he's pushed into revealing the details that he somehow still can recall, which enables the bomb to be successfully defused.
• somewhat: Here, the violence, tho undoubtedly extreme, is somewhat defused by the delirious absurdity of the staging.
• safely: Before leaving he safely defused a land mine, which had started ticking, lodged in the rafters of the Palladium theater in London.
• partially: Initially, the establishment of a Scottish Parliament did partially defuse national tension.
• quickly: The auction will be to defuse quickly repeated the the next generation.

Present participle complement

• grow: It is in a bid to defuse growing resentment from drivers.

Preposition: in

• time: LicK got the kills but couldn't defuse in time.

Preposition: by

• officer: A bomb left by the IRA on a platform of the railroad station in Aldershot, England, was defused by explosives officers.