Sentences with 'defused'
Example sentences and phrases with the word defused and other words derived from it.
• « The crisis - or at least the prospect of armed conflict in South Carolina - was defused by the Compromise Tariff of 1833, which greatly reduced tariff rates. The South Carolina nullifiers accepted it, but in a move that demonstrated their inflexibility, they nullified the Force Act. »
• « Whites, whether rich or poor, were united by racism. Slavery defused class tensions between them, because poor as they were, southern whites had a common race with powerful plantation owners. »