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Definition of Disarm

1. Verb. Remove offensive capability from.

2. Verb. Make less hostile; win over. "Sam cannot disarm Sue "; "Her charm disarmed the prosecution lawyer completely"

3. Verb. Take away the weapons from; render harmless.

Definition of Disarm

1. v. t. To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.

Definition of Disarm

1. Verb. (transitive) To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To lay down arms; to stand down. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To reduce one's own military forces. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disarm

1. to deprive of weapons [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disarm

disappropriating disappropriation disappropriations disapproval disapprovals disapprove disapproved disapprovement disapprover disapprovers

disapproves disapproving disapprovingly disard disards disarm (current term) disarmament disarmaments disarmature disarmed

disarmer disarmers disarmest disarmeth disarming disarmingly disarmoured disarms disarrange disarranged

Literary usage of Disarm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of an Ex-minister: An Autobiography by James Howard Harris Malmesbury (1885)
"I wish you distinctly to let this be understood by Walewski and the Emperor, and that if Sardinia refuses to agree to disarm with Austria and France, ..."

2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1860)
"WAR IN ITALY CONTINUED—Summons of Austria to Sardinia to disarm—Reply of the Sardinian Government—Proclamations of King \ Victor Emmanuel—Views of the ..."

3. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1844)
"I am aware, to be sure, that it is as despised as it is despicable, and that it cannot now disarm those whom it has armed. 1 will disarm them for it. ..."

4. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"Let Homer nod now and then and affect some negligence in valour or in intellect—not in prudence—so as to disarm malevolence, or at least to prevent its ..."

5. Studies in History and Jurisprudence by James Bryce Bryce (1901)
"Accordingly whenever a Constitution can be so drawn and worked as to give the disjunctive tendencies just so much recognition as may disarm their violence, ..."

6. Studies in History and Jurisprudence by James Bryce Bryce (1901)
"Accordingly whenever a Constitution can be so drawn and worked as to give the disjunctive tendencies just so much recognition as may disarm their violence, ..."

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