different between disarmament vs disarm

English

Etymology

disarm +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s???(r)m?m?nt/

Noun

disarmament (countable and uncountable, plural disarmaments)

1. The reduction or the abolition of the military forces and armaments of a nation, and of its capability to wage war.
2. The act of disarming an opponent in a fight.
   • 1974, Black Belt (volume 12, number 11, page 15)

     With spears, swords and knives flying off the stage from intended defensive disarmament, no one sitting near the stage could afford to even blink his eyes.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English desarmen (“to divest of arms”), from Anglo-Norman desarmer.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s???(?)m/
• Rhymes: -??(r)m

Verb

disarm (third-person singular simple present disarms, present participle disarming, simple past and past participle disarmed)

1. (transitive) To deprive of weapons; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.
2. (transitive) To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous

3. (intransitive) To lay down arms; to stand down.
4. (intransitive) To reduce one's own military forces.
5. (transitive) To disable the security systems on.

Translations

Noun

disarm (plural disarms)

1. The act of depriving a person of a weapon they carry.
   • 2010, Steven Kaplan, Taiho-Jutsu: The Art of Arrests (page 194)

     As a brief background, the gun disarms originally taught to S.A.C. Airmen as part of the Combative Measures program were taken from Kodokan Goshin-Jutsu.

References

• disarm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• dirams