to defang

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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
to defang
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