DISARM

disarm. Disarm, v.t. to take way arms, confound, foil

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