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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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16 words match “DISARM”

DISARM v. 2 definitions
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.
DISARMAMENT n.
The act of disarming.
DISARMATURE n.
The act of divesting of armature. [R.]
DISARMED a. 2 definitions
Deprived of arms.
DISARMER n.
One who disarms.
DEMOBILIZATION n.
The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing.
DIS- n.
n distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissever.
DISEMBODY v.
To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers,-Wilhelm.
LOCK v.
To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
ORDER n.
ndate; a precept; a direction. Upon this new fright, an order was made by both houses for disarming all the papists in England. Clarendon.
SCARMAGE; SCARMOGE n.
A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish. [Obs.] Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms. Spenser.
SICKNESS n.
Shak. Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. Pope.
UNARM v.
To disarm. Sir T. Browne.
UNHARNESS v.
To disarm; to divest of armor. Holinshed.
UNSTEEL v.
To disarm; to soften. Richardson.
UNSTING v.
To disarm of a sting; to remove the sting of. [R.] "Elegant dissertations on virtue and vice . . . will not unsting calamity." J. M. Mason.