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- noun One who, or that which,
defuses .
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Examples
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Another safe way to get the benefit of essential oils is to put a few drops of oil in a special lamp called an aroma defuser, which is sold in herb shops.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Another safe way to get the benefit of essential oils is to put a few drops of oil in a special lamp called an aroma defuser, which is sold in herb shops.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Another safe way to get the benefit of essential oils is to put a few drops of oil in a special lamp called an aroma defuser, which is sold in herb shops.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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Another safe way to get the benefit of essential oils is to put a few drops of oil in a special lamp called an aroma defuser, which is sold in herb shops.
Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible Earl Mindell 2008
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In his efforts to remove ingested objects before they damaged the bodies in which they nested, this pioneer of endoscopy was "a time-bomb detonator, a defuser of explosions," in the words of his biographer, Mary Cappello.
Medicine Thomas Vinciguerra 2011
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The plan gave him another chance to pose as a bipartisan defuser of the debt bomb he himself lit, and so he took it.
The Gang of Six Play 2011
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Cappello refers to Jackson as "a time-bomb detonator, a defuser of explosives".
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But after winning two of the top prizes for her movie about an bomb defuser in Iraq, she looked like her own mind had just detonated.
Onstage drama and backstage delight at the Academy Awards 2010
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Standout scene: The daredevil defuser faces down an Iraqi suicide bomber who has tearfully changed his mind, but there isn't time to get the padlocks off all the explosives strapped to his body.
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As I pick it up I hear the sound that is music to every sex toy defuser's ears—silence.
With the Russian Exploding Dildo Squad Con Chapman 2011
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