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Originally Posted by Catlady
like discrete for discreet, or defuse for diffuse--especially if it happens more than once, which indicates to me that the author/proofreader was oblivious to the misuse. (I once read a book wherein characters kept sitting on their hunches around a campfire.)
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Just reminded me of one book I read a while back where the heroine was "diffusing" an bomb (more of an IED). The image I got reminded me of the Bloater drive in
Bill, the Galactic Hero so I sidelined into a re-read.