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disarm
verb as in render defenseless
Example Sentences
Released with the blessing of her son, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, it features a mix of the album he only discovered recently, featuring just her Wurlitzer organ accompaniment and a voice disarming in its immediacy.
They may be disarming — literally — a predator in their midst.
I’m the guy trying to calmly disarm the situation before it gets worse.
By disarming our public safety response to nonviolent situations, we could disarm the prejudices of our communities.
Another way to disarm these thoughts is watch them pass by in your mind’s eye, as if they were leaves in a stream or drifting clouds.
The doctors promise that the initiative will “disarm the boundaries between psychiatry, humanities, and hip-hop culture.”
“Only the most out-of-touch radical would try to disarm soldiers,” he said in a statement Thursday.
It was deemed too risky to try to disarm or move those chemical munitions, according to these officials.
I entered as part of the invasion force sent to disarm Iraq.
At a time when North Korea threatens our allies with nuclear weapons, why would we want to unilaterally disarm our enemies?
It was with the utmost difficulty that his wiser subordinates got him to disarm the sepoy regiments in Agra itself.
The soldiers were employed to disarm the people; but they had now advanced too far to be easily reduced.
It was but a little while afterward that the Legislature passed a law to disarm all the Union men of the State.
But, notwithstanding all this, their rule was brief; they were unable to disarm the spirit of hostility.
It is a far better and braver thing to bear bullying with such a mixture of spirit and good-humour, as in time to disarm it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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