Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Disarm

Disarm , transitive verb

[Old English desarmen, French désarmer; pref. dés- (Latin 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.