These words have become popular lately, and they get mixed up frequently.
Defuse is what you do with bombs to stop them exploding. This includes metaphorical bombs, like tense situations and quick tempers.
Diffuse is a chemistry term. It’s what happens when you add dye to water and it spreads out, for example. Metaphorically, it would be used when talking about something just sort of petering out or slowly affecting everything.
Trick to Remember
Defuse is what you do to things with fuses.
Diffuse –> Diffffffffuse. See the f’s spreading out.
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