defused

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.