disarmed

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past simple and past participle of

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.