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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
disarm .
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Examples
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As he steps down from the cabin, he is almost angry enough to punch somebody, anybody -- even the civilian liaison, who emerges from a group of Navy men, but whose solemn expression disarms him.
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I speak it with a heart full of anguish -- with a tongue unable to utter my emotions -- but it must be spoken -- the fatal truth -- that if your royal goodness cannot yield to us a boon which we hold necessary to our security and your own, your Majesty with one word disarms ten thousand men, ready to draw their swords in your behalf; or, to speak yet more plainly, you annihilate even the semblance of a royal party in Great
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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And then there's the last sentence--"disarms" could mean takes away his defenses, which I guess the conspiracy theories might be.
HH Com 581 Miss Snark 2006
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Majesty with one word disarms ten thousand men, ready to draw their swords in your behalf; or, to speak yet more plainly, you annihilate even the semblance of a royal party in Great Britain.’
Redgauntlet 2008
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It kind of disarms you with its stupidity, and then attempts to give you something imbued with a little bit of ... profundity.
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The aw-shucks shtick reassures the jaded, disarms critics and allows John Hickenlooper to be the consummate politico while not seeming like one.
Sean Paige: Is Hickenlooper a Reliable Ally? Sean Paige 2011
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Our Government ineffectively disarms the Criminals and overwhelmingly criminalizes and jails the Honest Good Citizen that arms to defend themselves from the criminals!!!
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Our Government ineffectively disarms the Criminals and overwhelmingly criminalizes and jails the Honest Good Citizen that arms to defend themselves from the criminals!!!
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"Farmer's daughter disarms terrorist and shoots him dead with AK47" (Telegraph, via Maggie Koerth-Baker)
Boing Boing 2009
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The aw-shucks shtick reassures the jaded, disarms critics and allows John Hickenlooper to be the consummate politico while not seeming like one.
Sean Paige: Is Hickenlooper a Reliable Ally? Sean Paige 2011
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