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make+less+offensive

  • 1 entschärfen

    I v/t
    1. (Sprengkörper) defuse, disarm, make ( oder render) safe; (Munition) deactivate
    2. fig. (Lage etc.) defuse, ease, take (some of) the tension out of; (Kritik etc.) tone down, soften, make more conciliatory; (Buch etc.) tone ( oder water) down; (Obszönes etc. herausnehmen) remove offensive material from, bowdlerize
    II v/refl Lage etc.: ease, lose its tension
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    to defuse
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    ent|schạ̈r|fen [Ent'ʃɛrfn] ptp entschä\#rft
    vt
    1) Bombe etc to defuse, to deactivate
    2) (fig) Kurve to straighten out; Krise, Lage to defuse; Argument to neutralize; Buch, Film to tone down
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    1) (to remove the fuse from (a bomb etc).) defuse
    2) (to make harmless or less dangerous: He succeeded in defusing the situation.) defuse
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    ent·schär·fen *
    vt
    ▪ etw \entschärfen
    1. (den Zünder entfernen) to defuse sth
    2. (weniger kritisch machen) to defuse sth; (weniger anstößig machen) to tone sth down sep
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    1) defuse, deactivate <bomb etc.>
    2) (fig.) defuse < situation>; tone down <discussion, criticism>
    * * *
    A. v/t
    1. (Sprengkörper) defuse, disarm, make ( oder render) safe; (Munition) deactivate
    2. fig (Lage etc) defuse, ease, take (some of) the tension out of; (Kritik etc) tone down, soften, make more conciliatory; (Buch etc) tone ( oder water) down; (Obszönes etc herausnehmen) remove offensive material from, bowdlerize
    B. v/r Lage etc: ease, lose its tension
    * * *
    1) defuse, deactivate <bomb etc.>
    2) (fig.) defuse < situation>; tone down <discussion, criticism>
    * * *
    (Bombe) v.
    to deactivate v. v.
    to disarm v.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > entschärfen

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