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DEFUSING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb)
Synonyms:
deactivation; defusing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("defusing" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)
Derivation:
defuse (remove the triggering device from)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb defuse
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