disarm. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

disarm

SYLLABICATION:	dis·arm
PRONUNCIATION:	ds-ärm
VERB:	Inflected forms: dis·armed, dis·arm·ing, dis·arms
TRANSITIVE VERB:	1a. To divest of a weapon or weapons. b. To deprive of the means of attack or defense; render harmless: “Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting” (Washington Irving). 2a. To overcome or allay the suspicion, hostility, or antagonism of. b. To win the confidence of.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	1. To lay down arms. 2. To reduce or abolish armed forces.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English disarmen, from Old French desarmer : des-, dis- + armer, to arm (from Latin armre, from arma, weapons; see ar- in Appendix I).
OTHER FORMS:	dis·armer —NOUN


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