Disarm

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To divest of a weapon or weapons.
  • v. To deprive of the means of attack or defense; render harmless: "Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest stingā€ ( Washington Irving).
  • v. To overcome or allay the suspicion, hostility, or antagonism of.
  • v. To win the confidence of.
  • verb-intransitive. To lay down arms.
  • verb-intransitive. To reduce or abolish armed forces.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
  • v. To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.
  • v. To lay down arms; to stand down.
  • v. To reduce one's own military forces.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
  • v. To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To deprive of arms; take the arms or weapons from; take off the armor from: as, he disarmed his foe; the prince gave orders to disarm his subjects: with of before the thing taken away: as, to disarm one of his weapons.
  • Specifically To reduce to a peace footing, as an army or a navy.
  • To deprive of means of attack or defense; render harmless or defenseless: as, to disarm a venomous serpent.
  • To deprive of force, strength, means of injuring, or power to terrify; quell: as, to disarm rage or passion; religion disarms death of its terrors.
  • To lay down arms; specifically, to reduce armaments to a peace footing; dismiss or disband troops: as, the nations were then disarming.
  • To press (the lips of a horse) outward so that they may not be bruised on the toothless portions, or bars, of the lower jaw.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make less hostile; win over
  • v. remove offensive capability from
  • v. take away the weapons from; render harmless
  • Antonym
    arm   
    Verb Form
    disarmed    disarming    disarms   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    convert    convince    win over   
    Form
    disarming   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unarm    disweapon    diswhip    dismail    dishelm    unsting   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Arm    alarm    arm    charm    farm    forearm    harm    nonfarm    rearm    unarm   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    unable    disable    defenseless    undeceived    abashed    irrelevant    vulnerable    unprepared    nonexistent    discomfit