disarm

Other forms of disarm

past tense

disarmed·

present participle

disarming·

third person

disarms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disarm

What does disarm mean?

disarm means "remove offensive capability from". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disarm?

disarm has 2 syllables: di-sarm. The stress falls on "sarm". In IPA it is /dɪˈsɑɹm/.

What is another word for disarm?

Close synonyms include demilitarize, demilitarise, unarm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of disarm?

The recorded antonyms are arm.

Is disarm a common word?

disarm is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.