Definition of "disarm" []

• To divest of a weapon or weapons. (verb-transitive)
• To deprive of the means of attack or defense; render harmless: "Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting” ( Washington Irving). (verb-transitive)
• To overcome or allay the suspicion, hostility, or antagonism of. (verb-transitive)
• To win the confidence of. (verb-transitive)
• To lay down arms. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The idea of all the nations in the world getting together and agreeing to disarm is a fairy tale (a nice fairy tale, but nowhere near reality)."
• "I met the person I would disarm him, without realising what a bitter pun the word disarm was."
• "Could Pain disarm, and Death's last pang beguile —!"