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.

Modifying Another Word

• 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.

• safely: Before leaving he safely defused a land mine, which had started ticking, lodged in the rafters of the Palladium theater in London.

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.