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verb

Disarm v. t. (past & past part. disarming; pres. part. disarming)

To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. "Security disarms the best-appointed army." "The proud was half disarmed of pride."

To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.

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Etymology of 'Disarm'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disarm" Quotes from Famous Books

... throughout the papers that Italy had begun to mobilise, and that a band of Garibaldians had crossed the frontier. The report seems to have been untrue. How it originated we know not; when Roon heard of it he exclaimed, "Now the Italians are arming, the Austrians cannot disarm." He was right. The Austrian Government sent a message to Berlin that they would withdraw part of their northern army from Bohemia, but must at once put the whole of their southern army on a war footing. Prussia refused to accept this plea, and the order for the mobilisation ...

— Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire • James Wycliffe Headlam

... as you said, the Emperor is mad, and it is better to disarm than to arm a madman. I tell you that two nations like France and England ought to be inseparable friends or relentless enemies; friends, they are the poles of the world, balancing its movements with perfect equilibrium; ...

— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere

... paper! I want to see your face when I speak to you;" but his reply, "Why, mother, I am reading. I was just going to read something aloud to you," would usually disarm and divert her. It was one of her great pleasures to have him read aloud to her. It mattered little what he read: she was equally interested in the paragraphs of small local news, and in the telegraphic ...

— Mercy Philbrick's Choice • Helen Hunt Jackson

... immediate menace to Joanne, Aldous was beginning to fear him less as the hours passed. Joanne, and the day itself, were sufficient to disarm him of his former apprehension. In places they could see for miles ahead and behind them. And Joanne, each time that he looked at her, was a greater joy to him. Constantly she was pointing out the wonders of the mountains to him and MacDonald. ...

— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood

... discussing is the belief that strangers are dangerous. Dr. Frazer tells us that "to guard against the baneful influence exerted voluntarily or involuntarily by strangers is an elementary dictate of savage prudence." You have to disarm them of their magical powers, to counteract "the baneful influence which is believed to emanate from them."[41] Of this feeling he has collected a great number of convincing illustrations. We find it also surviving in Roman ritual. A note, referred to above, which has come down ...

— The Religious Experience of the Roman People - From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus • W. Warde Fowler

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