How to pronounce defuse
Listen to defuse in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“defuse” in real sentences
65 clips in the index · 14 American · 16 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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dollar Grant from a pentagon program called project defuse
Andrew Dorsey · hear it here
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and expertise to defuse challenging situations as and when they happen.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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you're saying just just cuz just to develop defuse the bomb
House of Judah · hear it here
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to defuse that whole controversy and we took the opportunity to get
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of defuse. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.