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Definition of defang in English Turkish dictionary
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Definition of defang in English English dictionary
- To remove the fangs from (something)
The snake was defanged.
- To render harmless
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 - The roots of terror,The Week, 14 July 2007, 622, 4.
- Make harmless or less powerful
For decades, consumers feasted relentlessly, as if gravity, arithmetic and the tyranny of debt had been defanged by financial engineering.
- {f} remove fangs from (from dogs, snakes etc.); make harmless; make ineffectual; weaken the power or strength, make less powerful
- remove the fangs from; "defang the poisonous snake"
- To remove the fangs from something
- To undermine the power of a transgressor
- defanged
- past of defang
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de·fangSynonyms
declawPronunciation
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[ (")dE-'fa[ng] ] (transitive verb.) 1953. de- + fangResimler
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