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/dɪsˈɑrmɪŋ/ Listen

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.

noun

disarming n. Act of reducing or depriving of weapons.

Synonyms: disarmament.

adjective

disarming adj.

Capable of allaying suspicion or hostility and inspiring confidence; as, a disarming smile.

Capable of allaying hostility.

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Etymology of 'Disarming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disarming" Quotes from Famous Books

... which had hitherto kept itself in obscurity, was desirous of making reparation for this long and pusillanimous inactivity by some brilliant act. It plotted the disarming of the posts of the national guard, under favour of night; seizing the Tuileries, dissolving the committee and the ...

— Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II • Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon

... closed around the boy, and, after disarming him, led him away grumbling and muttering, while Wile McCager made apologies ...

— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck

... a new German war-ship, the Eber, of tragic memory, came to Apia from the Gilberts, where she had been disarming turbulent islands. The rest of that day and all night she loaded stores from the firm, and on the morrow reached Saluafata bay. Thanks to the misconduct of the Mataafas, the most of the foreshore was still in the hands of the Tamaseses; and they were thus able to receive from the Eber both ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... the religious pharmacy infallible receipts for calming the conscience; the priests in every country possess sovereign secrets for disarming the wrath of Heaven. However true it may be that the anger of Deity is appeased by prayers, by offerings, by sacrifices, by penitential tears, we have no right to say that religion holds in check the irregularities of men; they will first sin, and afterward seek the means to reconcile ...

— Superstition In All Ages (1732) - Common Sense • Jean Meslier

... him not so good by half as his master had represented him. Having led the horse to the stable he returned to receive the orders of his guest, whom the damsels, being now reconciled to him, were disarming; they had taken off the back and breast plates, but endeavored in vain to disengage the gorget, or take off the counterfeit beaver, which he had fastened with green ribbons in such a manner that they could not be untied, ...

— Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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