DISARMING

disarming

(adjective) capable of allaying hostility

disarming, disarmament

(noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms; “the disarmament of the aggressor nations must be complete”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

disarming (comparative more disarming, superlative most disarming)

charming; likely to put one at one's ease

Verb

disarming

present participle of disarm

Anagrams

• admirings, graminids

Source: Wiktionary


DISARM

Dis*arm", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disarming; p. pr. & vb. n. Disarming.] Etym: [OE. desarmen, F. désarmer; pref. dés- (L. dis-) + armer to arm. See Arm.]

1. To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. Security disarms the best-appointed army. Fuller. The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson.

2. To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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