(obsolete) To disorder; to make shapeless.

(transitive) To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.). / (transitive, figuratively) To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defuse

simple past tense and past participle of defuse

One who, or that which, defuses.

plural of defuser

plural of defusion

(psychology) The separation of an emotion or behavior-provoking verbal stimulus from the unwanted emotional or behavioral response as part of a therapeutic process. A neologism meant to indicate the reversal of thought-emotion-action fusion.

(proscribed) The act of defusing.

Misspelling of diffusion.