Defuse vs Disperse - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between defuse and disperse

is that defuse is to remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc) or defuse can be (obsolete) to disorder; to make shapeless while disperse is .

(Bomb disposal) (defus)

To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.).

To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.

Compare (diffuse).

(defus)

(obsolete) To disorder; to make shapeless.

* 1605 , , I. iv. 2:

If but as well I other accents borrow / That can my speech defuse ,

(intransitive) To scatter in different directions

The Jews are dispersed among all nations.

* Bible, Proverbs xv. 7

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.

* Cowper

Two lions, in the still, dark night, / A herd of beeves disperse .

(intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate

(intransitive) To disseminate

(physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract

(intransitive) To distribute throughout

* Do not confuse with the monetary word disburse, despite similarity.

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