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disarm

/dis-ahrm/US // dɪsˈɑrm //UK // (dɪsˈɑːm) //

解除武装,缴械,废除武装,裁军

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to deprive of a weapon or weapons.
    • : to remove the fuze or other actuating device from: to disarm a bomb.
    • : to deprive of the means of attack or defense: The lack of logic disarmed his argument.
    • : to divest or relieve of hostility, suspicion, etc.; win the affection or approval of; charm: His smile disarmed us.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to lay down one's weapons.
    • : to reduce or limit the size, equipment, armament, etc., of the army, navy, or air force.

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Examples

  • 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.