disarm
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English desarmen (“to divest of arms”), from Anglo-Norman desarmer.
Inflected forms:
form: disarms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disarming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disarmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disarmed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: disarms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To deprive of weapons; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [recreation of speech given in 1775] They tell us, sir, […] that we are weak―unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? […] Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
The Japanese armored cruiser Nisshin has been hit badly. Shells have sheared off several main guns and virtually disarmed the vessel. In the middle of all this, one Ensign Isoroku Yamamoto loses two fingers to the remains of an explosion.
gloss: To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to disarm a man's wrath
ON THE NARROW GAUGE. By P. B. Whitehouse. Nelson 30s. [...] In an introductory note Mr. Whitehouse disarms any criticism from narrow-gauge aficionados as immersed in the subject as himself by pointing out that his book has no pretensions to the status of a new narrow-gauge textbook; [...].
In some towns and cities, NOW members are still seen as "a bunch of lesbians" and the issue is continually used against them. Only by realizing that the name calling will stop once feminists work to disarm the word "lesbian" of its negative connotations, will non-lesbian members cease their fears of lesbian presence in the chapter.
Foremost in her arsenal is that smile – so enormous and so absurdly disarming that someone should have worked out a way to harness its power into international conflict resolution.
gloss: To lay down arms; to stand down.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To reduce one's own military forces.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To render into a state in which something is no longer armed, or prepared for use (such as to disable the security systems on).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You can open and close all the doors you want during this delay. Just keep in mind that if you have to re-enter, and it has been close to a minute, you may want to disarm and then re-arm just to be on the safe side.
gloss: The act of depriving a person of a weapon they carry.
pos: noun
examples: As a brief background, the gun disarms originally taught to S.A.C. Airmen as part of the Combative Measures program were taken from Kodokan Goshin-Jutsu.
Derived words: disarmament
disarmer
undisarmed
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: զինաթափել
roman: zinatʻapʻel
lang: Asturian
word: desarmar
lang: Belarusian
word: раззбро́йваць
roman: razzbrójvacʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: раззбро́іць
roman: razzbróicʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: абяззбро́йваць
roman: abjazzbrójvacʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: абяззбро́іць
roman: abjazzbróicʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: обезоръжавам
roman: obezorǎžavam
lang: Catalan
word: desarmar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 解除武裝 /解除武装
roman: jiěchú wǔzhuāng
lang: Czech
word: odzbrojit
lang: Danish
word: afvæbne
lang: Dutch
word: ontwapenen
lang: Esperanto
word: malarmi
lang: Finnish
word: riisua aseista
lang: French
word: désarmer
lang: Gallurese
word: disalmà
lang: German
word: entwaffnen
lang: Hungarian
word: lefegyverez
lang: Icelandic
word: afvopna
lang: Ido
word: desarmizar
lang: Irish
word: dí-armáil
lang: Italian
word: disarmare
lang: Japanese
word: 武装解除する
roman: busō kaijo suru
lang: Latin
word: exarmō
lang: Latin
word: dēarmō
lang: Latvian
word: atbruņot
lang: Māori
word: tupe
lang: Old English
word: bewǣpnian
lang: Polish
word: rozbrajać
lang: Polish
word: rozbroić
lang: Portuguese
word: desarmar
lang: Romanian
word: dezarma
lang: Russian
word: разоружа́ть
roman: razoružátʹ
lang: Russian
word: разоружи́ть
roman: razoružítʹ
lang: Russian
word: обезору́живать
roman: obezorúživatʹ
lang: Russian
word: обезору́жить
roman: obezorúžitʹ
lang: Campidanese Sardinian
word: disarmai
lang: Sassarese
word: disaimai
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dì-armaich
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: разоружати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: razoružati
lang: Spanish
word: desarmar
lang: Swedish
word: avväpna
lang: Turkish
word: silahsızlanmak
lang: Ukrainian
word: роззбро́ювати
roman: rozzbrójuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: роззбро́їти
roman: rozzbrójity
lang: Ukrainian
word: обеззбро́ювати
roman: obezzbrójuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: обеззбро́їти
roman: obezzbrójity
lang: Welsh
word: diarfogi