disarm

4 definitions • 8 examples

to take weapons away from someone, or to give up weapons or armies:

With one movement, she disarmed the man and pinned him against the wall.

Many politicians argued that this was no time to disarm (= give up the country's weapons and army).

disarm a bomb Experts successfully managed to disarm the bomb (= stop it from exploding).

to make someone like you, especially when they had not expected to:

His frankness completely disarmed her.

to take weapons away from someone, or give up weapons:

[ T ] Store security guards disarmed him and held him for the police.

[ I ] The revolutionary group refused to disarm.

[ T ] Bomb experts disarmed the device (= made it unable to explode).

to make someone begin to like you, esp. unexpectedly:

He was disarmed by the older man’s wit and intelligence.