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• n  act of reducing or depriving of arms
• v  remove offensive capability from
• v  make less hostile; win over
• v  take away the weapons from; render harmless
• s  capable of allaying hostility

• Her goofy humor and disarming frankness won Meredith Vieira myriad fans as the host of The View and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
• Not only is it refusing to even discuss disarming right now, it appears to be reaching an agreement with the Lebanese government under which it would refrain from displaying its .
• During the fighting I met Massoud at his headquarters north of Kabul and was struck by his intense integrity, charisma and disarming humor.

• disarmament
• disarm
• demilitarize
• demilitarise
• unarm

• arming
• armament
• arm

News & Articles

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• Celebs urge Obama to push for 'world without nuclear weapons'
  A new video starring top Hollywood celebrities urges President Obama to set forth a plan for disarming the world of nuclear weapons at this week's G-8 Summit in Northern Ireland. The video was produced by Global Zero, a D.C.-based "social movement" whose mission is "to eliminate all nuclear ...
  June 17, 2013 - The Washington Times

Quotes

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• Jay Lefkowitz in The Australian
  North Korea is not serious in disarming in a timely manner,Mr Lefkowitz said in a speech and comments implicitly questioning the strategy adopted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after the North exploded a nuclear bomb 15 months ago....
• Hamid Karzai in Dallas Morning News
  I strongly believe ...... that we must engage strategically in disarming terrorism by stopping their sources of supply of money, training, equipment and motivation,Karzai said.
• Ehud Olmert in San Francisco Chronicle
  Israel can't accept a situation in which Hamas, in its present form as a terror group calling for the destruction of Israel, will be part of the Palestinian Authority without disarming,Olmert said in a statement issued by his office.