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Loading... The meaning of DISARM is to deprive of means, reason, or disposition to be hostile. How to use disarm in a sentence.
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When you disarm someone, you take their weapons away from them. An archery instructor might, for example, disarm a student if he wasn't handling his bow and arrow carefully. To disarm is to remove a gun, knife — or any kind of weapon — from someone's hands, or from a group of people.
to take weapons away from someone, or give up weapons: [ T ] Store security guards disarmed him and held him for the police. [ I ] The revolutionary group refused to disarm. [ T ] Bomb experts disarmed the device (= made it unable to explode).
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Definition of disarm verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
to take weapons away from someone, or to give up weapons or armies: With one movement, she disarmed the man and pinned him against the wall. Many politicians argued that this was no time to disarm (= give up the country's weapons and army).
disarm. To disarm a person or group means to take away all their weapons. We will agree to disarming troops and leaving their weapons at military positions. If a country or group disarms, it gives up the use of weapons, especially nuclear weapons.
[transitive] disarm somebody to make somebody feel less angry or critical. He disarmed her immediately by apologizing profusely. The best way to disarm your critics is to make them laugh. compare arm
