Meaning of defang | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To remove the fangs from (something).
   transitive
2. To render (something) harmless.
   figuratively, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“The snake was defanged.”

“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.”

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