disarm

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English desarmen (“to divest of arms”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman desarmer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈɑː(ɹ)m/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)m

Verb

disarm (third-person singular simple present disarms, present participle disarming, simple past and past participle disarmed)

1. (transitive) To deprive of weapons; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
2. (transitive) To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous
   • 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[1]:

     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.

   to disarm a man's wrath

3. (intransitive) To lay down arms; to stand down.
4. (intransitive) To reduce one's own military forces.
5. (transitive) To disable the security systems on.
   • 2012, Todd Julian, Deter & Minimize: The Facts You Need to Know About Home Security, →ISBN:

     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.

Translations

to deprive of arms

• Armenian: զինաթափել (hy) (zinatʻapʻel)
• Bulgarian: обезоръжавам (bg) (obezorǎžavam)
• Catalan: desarmar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解除武裝／解除武装 (jiěchú wǔzhuāng), 解除武装 (jiěchú wǔzhuāng)

• Czech: odzbrojit
• Dutch: ontwapenen (nl)
• Finnish: riisua aseista
• French: désarmer (fr)
• Gallurese: disalmà
• German: entwaffnen (de)
• Icelandic: afvopna
• Ido: desarmizar (io)
• Italian: disarmare (it)
• Japanese: 武装解除する (ぶそうかいじょする, busō kaijo suru)
• Latin: exarmō, dēarmō
• Maori: tupe
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• Old English: bewǣpnian
• Polish: rozbrajać
• Portuguese: desarmar (pt)
• Romanian: a dezarma
• Russian: разоружа́ть (ru) impf (razoružátʹ), разоружи́ть (ru) pf (razoružítʹ), обезору́живать (ru) impf (obezorúživatʹ), обезору́жить (ru) pf (obezorúžitʹ)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: disarmai

• Sassarese: disaimai
• Scottish Gaelic: dì-armaich
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: разоружати

  Roman: razoružati (sh)

• Spanish: desarmar (es)
• Swedish: avväpna (sv)
• Turkish: silahsızlanmak

to deprive of the means or the disposition to harm

• Czech: odzbrojit
• Dutch: ontwapenen (nl)
• Gallurese: disalmà
• German: entwaffnen (de)
• Italian: disarmare (it)
• Maori: tupe
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• Portuguese: desarmar (pt)
• Russian: обезвре́живать (ru) impf (obezvréživatʹ), обезвре́дить (ru) pf (obezvréditʹ)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: disarmai

• Sassarese: disaimai
• Swedish: avväpna (sv)

to lay down arms

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繳械／缴械 (zh) (jiǎoxiè), 缴械 (zh) (jiǎoxiè), 放下武器 (fàngxià wǔqì), 解除武裝／解除武装 (jiěchú wǔzhuāng), 解除武装 (jiěchú wǔzhuāng)

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• Japanese: 干戈を収める (かんかをおさめる, kanka o osameru), 武器を捨てる (ぶきをすてる, buki o suteru)
• Russian: разоружа́ться (ru) impf (razoružátʹsja), разоружи́ться (ru) pf (razoružítʹsja), сложи́ть ору́жие pf (složítʹ orúžije)

to reduce the size of one's own military forces

• Japanese: 軍備を縮小する (ぐんびをしゅくしょうする, gunbi o shukushō suru)
• Russian: разоружа́ться (ru) impf (razoružátʹsja), разоружи́ться (ru) pf (razoružítʹsja)
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• Swedish: nedrusta

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Translations to be checked

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} desarmar (es)
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References

• “disarm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• dirams