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fuse

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1. fuse - Noun

2. fuse - Verb

Meaning

To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.

To unite or blend, as if melted together.

To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.

To be blended, as if melted together.

A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever. Dylan Thomas

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends. Roger Scruton

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. Ed Koch

The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination. Emily Dickinson

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism. Chaim Potok

They put fuse in the ass. Finnish Proverb

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