If you defuse a dangerous or tense situation, you calm it.
例句
The organization helped defuse potentially violent situations...該組織幫忙化解了可能出現的暴力局面。Officials will hold four days of talks aimed at defusing tensions over trade.官員們將舉行為期 4 天旨在消除貿易緊張關系的會談。
VERB
拆除(炸彈等)的引信
If someone defuses a bomb, they remove the fuse so that it cannot explode.
例句
Police have defused a bomb found in a building in London.警方已經拆除了一枚在倫敦一所大樓內發現的炸彈的引信。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb)