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Unarm

Unarm \Un*arm"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + arm.] To disarm.
--Sir T. Browne.

Unarm

Unarm \Un*arm"\, v. i. To puff off, or lay down, one's arms or armor. ``I'll unarm again.''
--Shak.

Wiktionary
unarm

vb. To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from.

WordNet
unarm

v. take away the weapons from; render harmless [syn: disarm]

Usage examples of "unarm".

International Law exempting unarmed fishing vessels from capture was applicable in the absence of any treaty provision, or other public act of the Government in relation to the subject.

Oltenian units anyway, and the sole unarmed member of a combat patrol would be an even more certain choice for a Molt with the leisure to pick his target.

An adept in all manly exercises and especially in horsemanship, he sometimes used to ride without stopping from Rome to Naples, a distance of forty-one leagues, passing through the forest of San Germano and the Pontine marshes heedless of brigands, although he might be alone and unarmed save for his sword and dagger.

Conan faced them, not a naked man roused mazed and unarmed out of deep sleep to be butchered like a sheep, but a barbarian wide-awake and at bay, partly armored, and with his long sword in his hand.

Shridharani believes that the Hindese were willing to accept Satyagraha first because, unarmed under British law, no other means were available to them, and then because they were predisposed to the method because of the Hindu philosophy of non-violence and the mystic belief that truth will triumph eventually since it is a force greater than the physical.

Donny Lembruck, who was unarmed, had squenched down into the smallest possible target on the floor beside the stern seat.

They were, by all reports, an unarmed, unregimented collection of old men, women and children.

A mass of men was coming down the road, unarmed, unspiked, no rifles visible: prisoners.

Also taught was unarmed self defense-something Jessica had urged her husband to learn after a savage attack on the CBS anchorman Dan Rather on a New York street in 1986.

The Corsairs had lit lanterns up and down the length of the galleot shortly before the collision, so that Spaniards running up from belowdecks, rubbing sleep out of their eyes, would be presented with the reassuring sight of oarsmen who were still safely in chains, and free crew members who were unarmed and disorganized.

Rama saw a group of Nagas converge, hissing, on an unarmed brahmin mother and her two shaven-headed sons.

He is the author of the bestseller Downsize This: Random Threats from an Unarmed American, and coauthor with Kathleen Glynn of Adventures in a TV Nation.

Security Council resolution which ended the conflict, the United States was allowed to place unarmed military observers at Cydonia Base as a token peacekeeping force to prevent farther shipments of Russian munitions to the base.

As a member of that minority of Americans who are unarmed, I have to find another way to combat the downsizing tide that seems to be rising against us.

Karate, judo, boxing, jiujitsu, wrestling-not one of the formal schools of unarmed combat prepares a man for the special problem of suddenly catching a sack of bricks that has fallen out of a third story window.