Defuse vs Dispel - What's the difference?
defuse | dispel |
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 drive away by scattering, or to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
As verbs the difference between defuse and dispel
is that defuse is to remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.) while dispel is to drive away by scattering, or to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate.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 ,
