Definition of "declaw" []

• To remove the claws from: declaw a cat. (verb-transitive)
• To strip of power, potency, or strength; make harmless or less threatening. (verb-transitive)

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.

• "BEER-SHEVA, Israel, March 9 (UPI) -- Engineers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel say they have developed a way to "declaw" nuclear fuel, ensuring only peaceful plutonium use."
• "Instead they make the case that the only way to stop the disproportionately high Black on Black gun violence and homicide rate is to 'declaw' Black males like you and I, removing this threatening tool from our possession."
• "People who are anti-declawing generally are not all that educated on the actual facts, because the anti-declaw community is incredibly vocal compared to the rest of us."