simple past tense and past participle of defuse

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defuse

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.

present participle of defuse

(obsolete) To disorder; to make shapeless.

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

One who, or that which, defuses.