Usually means: Made safe, neutralized a threat.
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  1. defused: Merriam-Webster
  2. defused: Collins English Dictionary
  3. defused: Vocabulary.com
  4. Defused: Wordnik
  5. defused: Wiktionary
  6. defused: Dictionary.com
  7. defused: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. defused: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. defused: Wordnik
  10. defused: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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  1. defused: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defuse)

verb:  (transitive) To remove the fuse from (e.g. a bomb).
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
verb:  (obsolete) To disorder; to make shapeless.
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