Defuse vs Adjust - What's the difference?
defuse | adjust |
To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.).
To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
(obsolete) To disorder; to make shapeless.
* 1605 , , I. iv. 2:
To modify.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To improve or rectify.
* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
To settle an insurance claim.
To change to fit circumstances.
As verbs the difference between defuse and adjust
is that defuse is to remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc) or defuse can be (obsolete) to disorder; to make shapeless while adjust is to modify.defuse
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Etymology 1
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(Bomb disposal) (defus)Etymology 2
Compare (diffuse).Verb
(defus)- If but as well I other accents borrow / That can my speech defuse ,
adjust
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(en verb)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}