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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
defang .
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Examples
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If the Arab states are being "defanged" -- always supposing they had any real fangs in the first place -- why should Israel not be "de-nuclearised"?
Vanunu: A Man without a Country has a Local and Global Community 2008
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Even better, Kim Zigfeld claims that after the WW2, fought mostly on Russia's territory and with a terrible loss in Russian lives, Allies should have "defanged" and "induced to reform"
Pajamas Media 2009
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The FundamentaList (No. Conservatives fight for the RNC chair, Focus on the Family fears the new Congress, and has Obama "defanged" the religious right?
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The FundamentaList (No. Conservatives fight for the RNC chair, Focus on the Family fears the new Congress, and has Obama "defanged" the religious right?
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In my world, when politics comes up on the course very rarely, it's almost always defanged by the glory of the day and everyone's preference for getting on with the game.
The Many Ways Golf Beats Politics John Paul Newport 2011
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The Hong Kong-based animal welfare group Animals Asia Foundation released a report in August that said bears in Chinese zoos were regularly whipped and beaten with sticks, while elephants were prodded with metal hooks, and tigers and lions were defanged and declawed, causing them chronic pain.
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The classes use defanged snakes and shock collars to teach your dog to avoid the critters.
Snakes in the Grass? 2009
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You either see them commodified and defanged -- think Muhammad Ali -- or they are simply erased from history.
Dave Zirin: "I'm a Negro Who Speak Up." Remembering Football Great Cookie Gilchrist Dave Zirin 2011
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The classes use defanged snakes and shock collars to teach your dog to avoid the critters.
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For horror fans who can't bear to watch as defanged vampires and cuddly werewolves make goo-goo eyes over some girl with shiny hair, there's still one monster who resists taming: You will never catch a zombie mooning pretentiously over his true love.
5 books on zombies Yvonne Zipp 2010
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