to disarm

Examples

• All

• The Syrian Army did not have a pool of skilled people to disarm unexploded bombs.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The renegade militias are supposed to be isolated, disarmed, arrested, and ultimately charged with crimes against humanity.

  Academic text (2002)

• For both countries, their first choice was that the other country disarm while they kept their weapons.

• We will each disarm a guard, and run.

  The Woman King (2022)

• "Someone has to get to that bomb and disarm it," he said.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Why don't you disarm it, then?

  Broken Arrow (1996)

• In return, the PKK was expected to disarm and leave Turkish territories.

  Academic text (2017)

• And before we knew what was going on, he'd already disarmed one of them.

  Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

• Sean Archer disarmed a massive bomb just one second before it was set to blow.

  Face/Off (1997)

• The technician was called in to disarm the faulty bomb safely before it could detonate.

Synonyms

D

to defuse

vsto disarm

21 4.8

Make a bomb safe by removing its trigger

applies more widely not only to bombs but to people and weapons

U

to unarm

vsto disarm

1 7.7

To take weapons away from a person so they cannot attack

also includes making someone harmless without removing weapons

Antonyms

A

to arm

119 3.7

To give weapons to people or prepare for fighting

How Disarmed

to neutralize

• Jargon

49 6.4

to demilitarize

• Formal

4 7.3

to disarm

93 3.9

to decommission

• Formal

22 6.5

to disable

87 3.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology