Dictionary entry

Disarm

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis‐arm″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disarming (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Disarming.] [OE. desarmen, F. désarmer; pref. dés- (L. dis-) + armer to arm. See Arm.] 1. 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. Fuller.

The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson.

2. To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.