disarming

Examples of disarmed

disarmed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In a situation of barter, we all accept to be disarmed.
This was particularly the case when the ' top ', in the form of the ' warlords ', were not disarmed.
The melody is disarmed of its narrative flow and reduced to a sound object - it becomes an instrument.
Since then conditions have reportedly much improved and most of the population has been disarmed.
Before it was clear, one way or the other, whether he would be released, he was disarmed.
Some favoured an organic, unified, and structured church, labelled ceremonies and governance ' indifferent ' and thereby disarmed the doctrinal objections of their opponents.
Over 50,000 combatants were disarmed before the government announced the official end to the country's armed conflict.
The local police sub-station was destroyed and the agents disarmed to prevent them from intervening.
The women's unshaken determination to enter public space despite the brouhaha of 1889 seems to have disarmed attacks.
The planes at all other air force bases were kept disarmed, although ammunition was stored nearby and could be loaded quickly at the command of top officials.
Disarmed troops can be easily replaced through new recruitment and promises of high pay.
They are likely to emphasise that militias have disarmed, that commerce and farming are picking up, and that former warlords now serve in the army or have been jailed.
It is, at least, arguable, however, that there are now factors never before existing in history which render a disarmed world possible to contemplate.
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