Defuse
Fall
Fall verb - To go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy Valentine's Day special, two cupids who resemble Sarah and Jimmy make Edd and May Kanker fall in love, and at one point defuse a food fight by making everyone in the room fall in love.
Source: Love Is in the Air - Big has hidden a bomb set to explode in the warehouse, and in order to defuse it, Bonkers must find the pieces of Fall-Apart Rabbit in various crates and put them together so Fall-Apart can defuse the bomb.
Source: Container Maze -
There's an insane twist on the Kaizo Trap in the hack shown in this video, where you have to defuse the trap, then hope the blocks switch back to coins just before a certain point before you fall to your death.
Source: Kaizo Trap
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