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Disarm

/dɪsˈɑː(ɹ)m/

The act of depriving a person of a weapon they carry.

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📖 Definitions of "Disarm"

noun

1
The act of depriving a person of a weapon they carry.

verb

1
To deprive of weapons; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
2
To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous
"to disarm a man's wrath"
3
To lay down arms; to stand down.
4
To reduce one's own military forces.

🔄 Synonyms of "Disarm"

3 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
unarmverb	(transitive) To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from.
demilitarizeverb	(transitive) To remove troops from (an area).
demilitariseverb	Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of demilitarize. [(transitive) To remove troops from (an area).]

↔️ Antonyms of "Disarm"

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
fortifyverb	(transitive) To give power, strength, or vigour to (oneself or someone, or to something); to strengthen.
armnoun	(anatomy) The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
girdverb	(transitive, chiefly reflexive) To prepare (oneself) for an action.
build upverb	(intransitive, transitive, idiomatic) To accumulate: to increase incrementally or continually.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Disarm"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
unarmverb	(transitive) To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from.
demilitarizeverb	(transitive) To remove troops from (an area).
demilitariseverb	Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of demilitarize. [(transitive) To remove troops from (an area).]
defuseverb	(transitive, figurative) To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
dismantleverb	(transitive) To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
disassembleverb	To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.
ridverb	(transitive) (also reflexive) Followed by of: to free (oneself or someone, or a place) from an annoyance or hindrance.
depriveverb	(transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
de-escalateverb	(ambitransitive) To decrease in intensity or magnitude.
neutralizeverb	(transitive) To make (something) even, inactive or ineffective.
demobilizeverb	To release someone from military duty, especially after a war.
disableverb	(chiefly electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
liftverb	(ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
forceverb	(transitive) To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
tendverb	(with to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.)
armsnoun	Weaponry, weapons.
weaponverb	(transitive) To equip with a weapon; to arm.
weapons	(stylized as WEAPONS) a 2007 American teenage crime drama film directed and written by Adam Bhala Lough and starring Nick Cannon, Paul Dano, Mark Webber, Riley Smith, and Brandon Mychal Smith.
disweaponverb	(transitive) To disarm; to take away the weapon of.
deweaponizeverb	(transitive) To make no longer a weapon; to remove the harmful aspects of.