defused
Variant of defuse
defuse
Definition
de·fuse (dē fyo̵̅o̅z′, di-)
defused
Usage Examples
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.
Preposition: by
- officer: A bomb left by the IRA on a platform of the railroad station in Aldershot, England, was defused by explosives officers.
