disarm
verb (used with object)
to deprive of a weapon or weapons.
are disarming
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present progressiveof disarm.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Once you give a firm that power, you are disarming everyone else and giving them this pluripotent doomsday device that they can use to take away value and shift things around and screw you over.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025
Her brisk emotional portraits of Americans are disarming, unpredictable, funny, sad, and, yes, at times enraging.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
Two recent works are disarming because of their off-kilter resemblance to functional objects.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2017
I find that in this business, oftentimes in meetings, the executives or people I'm meeting with seem very compelled by the Midwesterner for some reason because we are disarming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2015
They are disarming executive patronage and preponderances by putting down one-half the offices of the United States which are no longer necessary.
From The United States of America, Part 1 by Edwin Erle Sparks
