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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
"In summary: Diffuse is both a verb and an adjective, and refers to the spreading of something, or making it less concentrated. Defuse functions only as a verb and means "to remove the fuse from something."
Tension can be either diffused and defused
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Well, the last thing we want is to spread the situation out, so in this case ‘defuse’ would be the better word.