Alone can be defused for internal personnel.

Shouldn't we be defusing the bomb?

Long story short, the theory is this bomb can't be defused.

With such assistance, we believe that residual tensions will soon be defused.

There's an agenda issue here which would be defused with the presence of a man.

This bomb can't be defused. We must take off this jacket.

With political will and material support, conflict can be defused and countless lives can thus be spared.

In the interests of the peoples of both Chad and the Sudan, it is crucial that this situation be defused.

Micro capital grants brought communities together for development planning, with tensions being defused as people collectively constructed irrigation systems and schools.

The environment of apparent suspicion, both among regional countries and inside Somalia, needs to be defused urgently if a productive conference is to be held.