defang
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /diːˈfæŋ(ɡ)/
defang (defangs, present participle defanging; past and past participle defanged)
- (transitive) To remove the fangs from (something).
- The snake was defanged.
- (figuratively) To render harmless.
- 2007, "The Roots of Terror", The Week, 14 July 2007, 622, 4.
- The Government's new security supremo, Admiral Sir Alan West, said the danger from home-grown and foreign terrorists was at its greatest level ever, and warned that it could take up to 15 years to defang Islamic radicalism.
- 2007, "The Roots of Terror", The Week, 14 July 2007, 622, 4.
- (render harmless) declaw
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