Defuse
Fire
Fire verb - To cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force.
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- The anime's giving him a role in the Temple of Fire filler arc seems to have been an attempt to defuse this trope.
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Peabody and Sherman fire up the WABAC Machine and travel through time, save Nell from the spinning sawblade, defuse the Bomb with the Bomb Extinguisher, and complete the Pie to start Tri-Ball multiball.
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