1. To remove weapons from someone or deprive them of armed capability.
2. To render a weapon or dangerous device incapable of its intended harmful operation.
3. To reduce someone’s hostility, suspicion or readiness to oppose through manner or action.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- disarm a force
- disarm an opponent
On the page
The agreement required the force to disarm before the monitoring mission began.
The guards disarmed the intruder without resolving who had sent him.
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- disarm
- Past tense
- disarmed
- Past participle
- disarmed
- Present participle
- disarming
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- disarm
- Present continuous
- am/is/are disarming
- Present perfect
- have/has disarmed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been disarming
- Past
- disarmed
- Past continuous
- was/were disarming
- Past perfect
- had disarmed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been disarming
- Future
- will disarm
- Future continuous
- will be disarming
- Future perfect
- will have disarmed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been disarming
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: disarm; disarms; disarmed; disarmed; disarming Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, narrative analysis, characterization, contrast. Disciplines: literary analysis, prose writing, advanced general English. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: disarms.
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