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. 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.

2. Erich Pratt:

   We are excited to see Kathy Hochul finally served a plate of humble pie, and we are fully prepared to continue the fight should she again attempt to disarm the citizens of her state at a time when her party’s policies are only escalating the danger that everyday citizens face.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Tench Coxe:

   Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American… [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.”, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.