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disarm

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" Disarm " is a song by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins . It was the third single from their second album, Siamese Dream . "Disarm" was written by Billy Corgan and is one of the band’s most highly regarded songs. Corgan considers it ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French desarmer (11c.), from des- (see dis- ) + armer "to arm" (see arm (v.)). The figurative sense is slightly earlier in English than the literal. Related: Disarmed ; disarming .

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Disarm \Dis*arm"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disarming ; p. pr. & vb. n. Disarming .] [OE. desarmen, F. d['e]sarmer; pref. d['e]s- (L. dis-) + armer to arm. See Arm .] To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack ...

Usage examples of disarm.

The streets were deserted--or at least they seemed to be--as Stevie and Adonis made their way down a back alley and, after disarming the security system, entered her home.

Wash reached the cover of the Aleut accused by him of aiming directly to finish the Shanghai rooster, and before that startled aborigine could escape, he was disarmed by the black man and dragged across the intervening space to the fort.

Fluidly, he slipped among the attackers, splintering spears when he could, trying to disarm the Baka Ban Mana without killing them.

The French troops had not only been disarmed, but they had been herded on to hulks, where they had died off like flies, and by the latest news, the survivors--and these were not more than half of those who laid down their arms--had been packed off to Cabrera, a small islet in the Balearic group lying off the southern coast of Majorca.

Bonesteel arranged his men in an arch to dig their heels in and hold, while wagons of wounded were trundled across the stone bridgeway, the vehicles scavenged from the abandoned redoubt after its former defenders had been disarmed and released.

I think they were afraid that we would reverse the direction of the buckets, and bring the bomb back down to Earth to disarm it.

At any rate, instead of making any attempt to disarm criticism or thwart curiosity, we lived the freest kind of life, more regardless of public opinion than ever.

And when the surviving Gepids were rounded up, disarmed and taken prisoner, we learned why those kinsmen of ours had ambushed us.

But having agreed with Selina that Axford Buildings were situated in a horrid part of the town, and with Mrs Leavening that Gay Street was too steep for elderly persons, he laughed, and disclosed with disarming candour that he knew nothing of either locality.

Once the explosive was disarmed the detonators were out in seconds but to Luis it seemed an hour he jumped to his feet and took this new physique of his on its first flat-out run.

After getting its metabolism progressively disarmed for some fifty centuries by the benefits of nutriculture, ordinary-human knew better than to sample the natural growths of even its own worlds.

Seven Champions of Christendom disarmed and worsted in the fight, going back to Our Lady to find that she had hidden their swords where the gospels tell us she hid and pondered all things--in her heart?

There would be no fierce debates with the Russians and French over whether Iraq is qualitatively disarmed.

The parties met at Rambouillet, France, on February 6, to work out the details of an agreement that would restore autonomy, protect the Kosovars from oppression with a NATO-led operation, disarm the KLA, and allow the Serb army to continue to patrol the border.

A few more quick orders in the local patois -- a corrupt version of Spanglish -- and the doctor found himself disarmed.