1. (military) change the paths of aircraft and weapons to reduce the risk of an accidental collision or conflict; coordinate in an attempt to avoid direct clashes between different forces
   "The air traffic controllers worked to deconflict the flight paths"
    
2. Alter to avoid conflict with something else
   "We need to deconflict our schedules to find a meeting time"

Derived forms: deconflicted, deconflicting, deconflicts