Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - disarm
Disarm
disarm
v. 1 tr. a take weapons away from (a person, State, etc.) (often foll. by of : were disarmed of their rifles). b Fencing etc. deprive of a weapon. 2 tr. deprive (a ship etc.) of its means of defence. 3 intr. (of a State etc.) disband or reduce its armed forces. 4 tr. remove the fuse from (a bomb etc.). 5 tr. deprive of the power to injure. 6 tr. pacify or allay the hostility or suspicions of; mollify; placate. Derivatives disarmer n. disarming adj. (esp. in sense 6). disarmingly adv. Etymology: ME f. OF desarmer (as DIS-, ARM(2))
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verb Etymology: Middle English desarmen, literally, to divest of arms, from Anglo-French desarmer, from desdis+ armer to arm Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to deprive of means, reason, or disposition to be hostile , to win over, 2. to divest of arms , to deprive of a means of attack or defense , to make harmless , intransitive verb to lay aside arms, to give up or reduce armed forces, ~ament noun ~er noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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