Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To divest of armor or arms; disarm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strip of armor or arms; disarm.
- To vnarme hym the kyng made in that place.
- To render incapable of inflicting injury; make harmless.
- To take off or lay aside one's arms or armor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To disarm.
- intransitive verb To put off, or lay down, one's arms or armor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
disarm , to remove thearmour andweapons from.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take away the weapons from; render harmless
Etymologies
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Examples
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Slip of a dress, for you to undress, unarm me and not think of falling rain.
Archive 2010-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2010
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Slip of a dress, for you to undress, unarm me and not think of falling rain.
Watery Matters Megan Arkenberg 2010
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“She alone is in the habit of assisting to unarm and to attire me.”
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Go, tell no man to unarm himself; and let them shoot, in case of necessity, as sharply on those who cry France and St. Denis! as if they cried Hell and Satan!
Quentin Durward 2008
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How many bullets do one person need to unarm one person?
Not Guilty! So What Else is New? Anxious Black Woman 2008
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“I pray thee to call my slaves to unarm me; and when thou thyself doffest those weapons of an ordinary life-guardsman, tell them they never shall above twice more enclose the limbs of one for whom fate has much more fitting garments in store.”
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And I, said he, will so do that thou mayst fear me the less; for I will unarm me when the night cometh, and thou thyself shalt keep mine hauberk and sword and anlace.
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And also to unarm and disarm someone who's come in with a gun, and to be able to confront them and stop them from shooting children who are unarmed in any way -- if they have to, fire upon them so that they stop hurting kids.
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She came to him and stood to one side while his squire helped him unarm.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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Annais handed Guillaume to Soraya and, with her heart in her mouth, came to help Sabin unarm.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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