What is "defusing"

Usage examples of "defusing".

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.

We need to try to salvage it by defusing it instead of blowing it up or dropping it in the ocean.

While dozens of military and civilian employees scrambled to find someone else with expertise in defusing a nonstandard home-brew nuclear device, the reality had sunk in that their best chance for defusing the Medusa Weapon had probably been lost in the wreckage of the Grumman.

If our experts decide they can't defuse it, or defusing is improbable, stop right there and fly it offshore.

Tell your commanders, do not press the defusing attempt one inch beyond certainty, understood?

The team can work on defusing while the front two pallets are removed.

There was discussion that the President suggested we consider dumping if we decide defusing it in time is not safely possible.

The colonel said to him: 'I am responsible for defusing and preserving this bomb.

Amidships we have four to six fish, Defusing and Fusing again at irregular intervals.

He would have to try other methods first, defusing this matter in some more devious and effective manner.

A little humor could go a long way toward defusing the tension each felt in the presence of the other.

Clearly, if real progress was going to be made in defusing the tension that had been growing between the species, there were going to have to be changes made on both sides.

They had celebrated in this evening’s brief dance in the English patient’s room their own simple adventures—Hana her sleep, Caravaggio his “finding” of the gramophone, and Kip a difficult defusing, though he had al­most forgotten such a moment already.

They had worked together at defusing the 4,ooo-pound bomb and were exhausted.

I have quoted directly from his book (the italicized lines in the “In Situ” section) and have based some of Kirpal Singh s methods of defusing on actual techniques that Hartley records.