disarm (verb)

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• disarm — ► VERB 1) take a weapon or weapons away from. 2) (of a country or force) give up or reduce its armed forces or weapons. 3) remove the fuse from (a bomb). 4) allay the hostility or suspicions of; win over …   English terms dictionary

• disarm — verb Etymology: Middle English desarmen, literally, to divest of arms, from Anglo French desarmer, from des dis + armer to arm Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to deprive of means, reason, or disposition to be …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• disarm — I (divest of arms) verb arma homini adimere, attenuate, cripple, deactivate, debilitate, decimate, deescalate, demilitarize, demobilize, deprive of arms, deprive of means of defense, deprive of power, deprive of strength, deprive of weapons,… …   Law dictionary

• disarm — verb 1 (I) to reduce the size of your armed forces and the number of weapons: Getting the rebels to disarm will not be easy. 2 (T) to take away someone s weapons: Captured soldiers were disarmed and put into camps. 3 (T) if your manner or… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• disarm — verb 1) the UN must disarm the country Syn: demilitarize, demobilize 2) the militia refused to disarm Syn: lay down one s arms, demilitarize; literary beat one s swords into plowshares 3) police disarmed the bomb Syn …   Thesaurus of popular words

• disarm — verb a) To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. b) To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; …   Wiktionary

• disarm — verb Disarm is used with these nouns as the object: ↑bomb, ↑militia …   Collocations dictionary

• disarm — verb 1) the militia refused to disarm Syn: lay down one s arms, demobilize, disband, demilitarize 2) police disarmed the bomb Syn: defuse, disable, deactivate, make safe 3) the warmth in hi …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• disarm — verb 1》 take a weapon or weapons away from.     ↘(of a country or force) give up or reduce its armed forces or weapons.     ↘remove the fuse from (a bomb). 2》 deprive of the power to hurt.     ↘[often as adjective disarming] allay the hostility… …   English new terms dictionary

• disarm — [[t]dɪ̱sɑ͟ː(r)m[/t]] disarms, disarming, disarmed 1) VERB To disarm a person or group means to take away all their weapons. [V n] We will agree to disarming troops and leaving their weapons at military positions. 2) VERB If a country or group… …   English dictionary

• disarm — UK [dɪsˈɑː(r)m] / US [dɪsˈɑrm] verb Word forms disarm : present tense I/you/we/they disarm he/she/it disarms present participle disarming past tense disarmed past participle disarmed 1) a) [transitive] to take someone s weapons so that they can… …   English dictionary