disarmverb
uk/dɪˈsɑːm/us/dɪˈsɑːrm/disarm verb (REMOVE WEAPONS)
[ I or T ] to take weapons away from someone, or to give up weapons or armies:
With one movement, she disarmed the man and pinned him against the wall.
Many politicians argued that this was no time to disarm (= give up the country's weapons and army).
Experts successfully managed to disarm the bomb (= stop it from exploding).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Providing weapons or taking weapons away
- arm
- armament
- armed
- arms control
- arms race
- bare
- capability
- decommission
- disarmament
- gun control
- militarized
- nuclear-free
- pack
- peace dividend
- rearm
- reinforce
- tooled up
- unarmed
- under arms idiom
- with your bare hands idiom
disarm verb (PERSONALITY)
[ T ] to make someone like you, especially when they had not expected to:
His frankness completely disarmed her.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Attracting and tempting
- affinity
- allure
- arrest
- attract
- attraction
- charm
- charm offensive
- charm the pants off sb idiom
- counterattraction
- crowd-puller
- cute
- glitter
- magnet
- pulling power
- reel
- reel sb/sth in
- seduce
- seduction
- seductive
- spell
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disarming
adjective uk/dɪˈsɑː.mɪŋ/us/dɪˈsɑːrmɪŋ/approving
He displayed a disarming honesty by telling them about his father's bankruptcy.