Do a minesweeper's job

Usage examples of defuse.

More important, however, is that the transfer would improve commerce between the Belt and the Triplanetary population, defusing the more volatile Belter Autarchists, who view trade with Triplanetary as both expensive and pointless.

If he had been established in China, as he hoped to be in a decade, he would have fought with every bit of leverage and lies at his command to defuse the growing crisis, as Chinas other trading partners were no doubt doing, including the United States.

But the second and third would not: the second would explode if the monofilament trigger were cut, so any officer attempting to defuse the device would be killed or dismembered.

While normally the ship was Defused from the bridge by running a finger down the Fusion control console, ignition was trickier.

Her target defused its mass in sections, permitting the apples to pass through.

He was such easy company, and defused so many situations for them both.

It not only flattened the Kosmos to a one-dimensional, monological affair, it sealed out the possibility of deeper and wider developments that alone could defuse its own insoluble dilemmas.

And this kind of unshakable stupidity was essential when it came to sending someone to defuse the offworlders at police conferences.

Like all impulses, it comes in varying degrees, and even a towering rage can be deflated until it defuses into controlled rage, then justified anger, and on down to righteous indignation, and finally personal offense.

When you begin by humbly admitting your mistakes, it defuses the other person's anger and disarms their attack because they were probably expecting you to be defensive.

The Bible says, "A gentle response defuses anger, but a sharp tongue kindles a temper fire.

We have found that assigning them to the poetry enclaves defuses their dangerous criminal traits that threaten the order of our society.

But it also evades -- or defuses -- the relentless erotic pulse of mutant dance forms like disco, techno, and rave.

Which McCain, incredibly, sees the man's humanity, the seriousness of these issues to himand says yes, he will, he'll promise to look into it, and yes he'll put this promise in writing, although he ``believe[s] [they] have a difference of opinion about this mind-control machine,'' and in short defuses the insane man and treats him respectfully without patronizing him or pretending to be schizophrenic too, and does it all so quickly and gracefully and with such basic decency that if it was some sort of act then McCain is the devil himself.

They'll need every second to work on the defusing, so the last thing we need is this woman holding the bomb hostage while she makes threats to explode it, if that's what she's intending to do.