Defuse vs Ur - What's the difference?
defuse | ur |
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:
As a verb defuse
is to remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc) or defuse can be (obsolete) to disorder; to make shapeless.As a noun ur is
(initialism) of (underlying representation), a concept in phonology and morphophonology.defuse
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(Bomb disposal) (defus)Etymology 2
Compare (diffuse).Verb
(defus)- If but as well I other accents borrow / That can my speech defuse ,