disarm

v. 1 take weapons etc. Away from. 2 reduce or give up one's own weapons. 3 defuse (a bomb etc.). 4 make less angry, hostile, etc; charm, win over.  disarming adj. (esp. In sense 4). Disarmingly adv.

v. t. To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.