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Disarm vs Defuse - What's the difference?

disarm | defuse |

As verbs the difference between disarm and defuse

is that disarm is to deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless while defuse is to remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc) or defuse can be (obsolete) to disorder; to make shapeless.

disarm

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
  • To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.
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  • To lay down arms; to stand down.
  • To reduce one's own military forces.

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    defuse

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (Bomb disposal) (defus)
  • To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.).
  • To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
    • Related terms
    * defusion * defusive * defuze

    Etymology 2

    Compare (diffuse).

    Verb

    (defus)
  • (obsolete) To disorder; to make shapeless.
  • * 1605 , , I. iv. 2:
    • If but as well I other accents borrow / That can my speech defuse ,