Antonyms of verb arm

1 of 2 senses of arm

Sense 1
arm, build up, fortify, gird -- (prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqi border")
       Antonym of disarm (Sense 1)
      => disarm, demilitarize, demilitarise -- (remove offensive capability from)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb arm

2 senses of arm

Sense 1
arm, build up, fortify, gird -- (prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqi border")

Sense 2
arm -- (supply with arms; "The U.S. armed the freedom fighters in Afghanistan")
       => supply, provide, render, furnish -- (give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater")

Antonyms of adj armed

3 senses of armed

Sense 1
armed (vs. unarmed) -- ((used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms; "armed robbery")

unarmed (vs. armed) -- ((used of persons or the military) not having or using arms; "went alone and unarmed"; "unarmed peasants were shot down"; "unarmed vehicles")
        => barehanded -- (with bare hands; "fought barehanded")
        => clean -- (not carrying concealed weapons)
        => defenseless, defenceless -- (lacking weapons for self-defense)
        => weaponless -- (without a weapon)

Sense 2
armed (vs. armless) -- (having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination; "the many-armed goddess Shiva")

armless (vs. armed) -- (having no arms; "the armless Venus de Milo")

Sense 3
armed (vs. unarmed) -- ((used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns)

unarmed (vs. armed) -- ((used of plants or animals) lacking barbs or stings or thorns)
        => thornless, spineless -- (lacking thorns)

Similarity of adj armed

3 senses of armed

Sense 1
armed (vs. unarmed) -- ((used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms; "armed robbery")
       => equipped, weaponed -- (carrying weapons)
       => light-armed -- (armed with light equipment and weapons; "a light-armed brigade")
       => militarized, militarised -- (issued military arms)

Sense 2
armed (vs. armless) -- (having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination; "the many-armed goddess Shiva")
       => armlike -- (resembling an arm)
       => brachiate -- (having arms or armlike appendages)
       => long-armed -- (having relatively long arms)
       => one-armed -- (having one arm; "a one-armed veteran")

Sense 3
armed (vs. unarmed) -- ((used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns)
       => barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny -- (having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers")
       => bristlelike -- (resembling a bristle)
       => brushlike -- (resembling a brush; "brushlike blue blooms")
       => thistlelike -- (resembling a thistle)
       => clawed, taloned -- ((of predatory animals) armed with claws or talons)