If someone or something is disarming, they make you feel less angry or hostile. Leonard approached with a disarming smile + disarmingly dis·arm·ing·ly He is, as ever, business-like, and disarmingly honest. making you feel less angry or disapproving towards someone, and more friendly
remove offensive capability from take away the weapons from; render harmless make less hostile; win over; "Her charm disarmed the prosecution lawyer completely
If a country or group disarms, it gives up the use of weapons, especially nuclear weapons. There has also been a suggestion that the forces in Lebanon should disarm
A miscellaneous action in combat enabling an attacker to remove a weapon from an opponents hands Any such attempt provokes an attack of opportunity from the defender, which occurs before the disarm attempt is resolved Next, the attacker and defender make opposed attack rolls with their respective weapons If the weapons are different sizes, the combatant with the larger one gets a bonus of +4 per difference in size category on the attack roll A defender using a weapon in two hands gains an additional +4 bonus to the roll If the attacker wins the roll, the weapon is either on the ground at the defenders feet (if the attacker was already armed) or in the attackers hands (if the attacker made the attempt unarmed) If the attacker loses the roll, the attempt fails, and the defender may immediately try to disarm the attacker with the same sort of opposed attack roll The amount of time needed for a disarm attempt varies with the results