Past tense of defuze; successfully removed a fuze from an explosive device or resolved a tense situation.
From 'defuze' plus the regular past tense suffix '-ed.' The -ed suffix comes from Old English and is the most common past tense marker in English.
English's regular past tense (-ed) is so dominant that irregular verbs like 'went' (not 'goed') seem quirky, but historically all verbs were irregular—regularization was a grammatical democratization process.
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