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Definitions: DISARMED |
DISARMEDAdjective1. Deprived of claws, and teeth or beaks. 2. Deprived of arms. |
Date "DISARMED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Crosswords: DISARMED |
| English words defined with "DISARMED": disarm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DISARMED": armed interrupt. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | An undated view of the ship without armament. She and most other U.S. Navy surveying ships were disarmed by late 1959. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Henry Ward Beecher | The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. |
Lord Chesterfield | Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. |
Oscar Wilde | Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Whereas by supposing they have given up themselves to the absolute arbitrary power and will of a legislator, they have disarmed themselves, and armed him, to make a prey of them when he pleases; he being in a much worse condition, who is exposed to the arbitrary power of one man, who has the command of 100,000, than he that is exposed to the arbitrary power of 100,000 single men; no body being secure, that his will, who has such a command, is better than that of other men, though his force be 100,000 times stronger. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | These warships will have been disarmed as provided in Article XXIII of the Armistice of November 11, 1918. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Liberia | Approximately 21 percent (4,306) of the combatants who disarmed under the provisions of the Abuja Peace Accords were child soldiers under the age of 17. Many youths remain traumatized, and some still are addicted to drugs. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Zimbabwe | The police ultimately disarmed the war veterans and other attackers, but did not arrest or charge them. (references) |
Economic History | Afghanistan | A follow-up agreement, the Jalalabad Accord, called for the militias to be disarmed but was never fully implemented. (references) |
Human Rights | Georgia | According to press reports, the warden disarmed the inmate and restored order. (references) |
Nicaragua | It also disarmed 423 members of the proSandinista "Andres Castro United Front" (FUAC). (references) | |
Somalia | The clashes reportedly began when the Islamic Court Militia disarmed a group of youths. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sierra Leone | Since the resumption of the DDR process in May, more than 40,000 former combatants had disarmed by year's end. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Donald Rumsfeld | Well, the end game that the United Nations expressed in that unanimous Security Council resolution was that the Iraqi regime disarm, and that they prove that they have disarmed. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "DISARMED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 60.23% of the time. "DISARMED" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 60.23% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 31.82% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.82% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 88 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "DISARMED": disarmed mine ♦ disarmed state. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DISARMED": much-disarmed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disarmed | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DISARMED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 解除武装 (Disarm, Disarming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | desarmeret mine (disarmed mine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aseeton (unarmed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | désarmai, désarmés, désarmée, désarmé, désarmèrent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | entwaffnete, abgerüstet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αφοπλισμένη κατάσταση (disarmed state). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hatástalanított akna (disarmed mine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 기폭장치를 거하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isarmedday desarmado (armless, defenceless, fanlight, unarmed, weaponless). (various references) dezarmat (defenceless, unarmed, undefended). (various references) нейтрализовать;разоружаться заблокированный. (various references) desarmado (unarmed). (various references) diarfog. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DISARMED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desaraed, diarmuid, disparked, disrated, Ducharme. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DISARMED" (pronounced di'sÄ"rmd) |
| 4 | -Ä" r m d | alarmed, armed, charmed, farmed, harmed, unarmed, unharmed. |
| 3 | -r m d | conformed, deformed, formed, informed, malformed, misinformed, outperformed, performed, reformed, stormed, swarmed, transformed, unformed, uniformed, uninformed, warmed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-i-m-r-s" | |
-1 letter: admired, admires, diadems, madders, misread, sedarim, sidearm. | |
-2 letters: adders, admire, aiders, aimers, amides, armies, deairs, dermas, dermis, desmid, diadem, dimers, disarm, dreads, dreams, irades, madder, madres, mediad, medias, misadd, raided, raised, ramies, readds, redias, resaid, sadder. | |
-3 letters: adder, aided, aider, aides, aimed, aimer, aired, amide, amids, amies, amirs, arise, armed, aside, dames, dared. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-i-m-r-s" | |
+1 letter: dramedies, misgraded. | |
+2 letters: bridesmaid, dramatised, misaddress, misawarded, misbranded. | |
+3 letters: bridesmaids, desideratum, disaffirmed, disembarked, dromedaries, gormandised, imparadised. | |
+4 letters: administered, dermatitides, masterminded, merchandised, misaddressed, misaddresses. | |
+5 letters: administrated, discriminated, disharmonized, misaddressing, misunderstand, multistranded. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 53 41 52 4D 45 44 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... .- .-. -- . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010011 01000001 01010010 01001101 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I S A R M E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0053 0041 0052 004D 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3843533552473938 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, 중국, chinês, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, chino |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | 丹麦语, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, 덴마크, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danés |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finn, 핀란", finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, finlandés, finés |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, "랑스, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francés, Ffrengig |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, 독일, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, alemán, Almaenwr |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | 希腊语, 希臘語 , græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, 그리스, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, griego, Groegwr |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , ungarer, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, 헝가리, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, húngaro |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, koreai, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, limba coreeanã, coreean, кореец, корейский, coreano |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, 포르투갈, português, portughez, португальский, portugués |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | 罗马尼亚语, rumæner, romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, 루마니아, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumano |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, russer, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, 러시아, русский, ruso |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, 스페인, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, español |
Welsh | geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiad | 威"士, 威爾士語 , gallois, walisisch, ουάλλοσ, ουαλλικόσ, δεν πληρώνω τα οφειλόμενα, walesi, galês, limba velşã, velş, din ţara galilor, уэльский, galés, Cymreig |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, 영국, inglês, englezesc, английский, inglés, Saesneg |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Historic 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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