Synonyms for disarm
dɪsˈɑrmdis·arm

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1. disarm, demilitarize, demilitariseverb

   remove offensive capability from

   Synonyms:
   demilitarize, demilitarise, unarm

   Antonyms:
   arm, build up, gird, fortify

2. disarmverb

   make less hostile; win over

   "Her charm disarmed the prosecution lawyer completely"

   Synonyms:
   demilitarize, demilitarise, unarm

   Antonyms:
   build up, arm, gird, fortify

3. disarm, unarmverb

   take away the weapons from; render harmless

   Synonyms:
   demilitarize, demilitarise, unarm

   Antonyms:
   build up, gird, fortify, arm

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1. disarmverb

   Synonyms:
   deprive of arms

2. disarmverb

   Synonyms:
   disable, incapacitate; render powerless, harmless, or innocuous

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1. List of paraphrases for "disarm":

   disarming, disarmament

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1. J. Neil Schulman:

   Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about to surrender their rights, and only the most foolish of politicians would risk the stability of the government by trying to use the force of the state to disarm the people.

2. Lewis Langham:

   Patrick Lyoya was legally obligated to do. He failed to produce a license, he was driving on a bad registration tag, resisting arrest... not to mention the fact had Patrick Lyoya not been shot and killed, Patrick Lyoya would have been charged with one or two felonies. One attempting to disarm a police officer and resisting arrest.

3. George Mason:

   To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

   If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.

5. United States:

   My own sense is that Kim Jong would only be ready to( totally disarm) at the end of a very long process and that Kim Jong goal at the present time is to remain a de facto nuclear power while reducing the sense of worry and threat about that so Kim Jong can begin to develop the economy, i do think United States is very serious about wanting to make North Korea a more normal country, looking more like North Korea neighbors, more like a successful Asian economy.