Word Meanings - UNSTEEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To disarm; to soften. Richardson.

Related words: (words related to UNSTEEL)

• DISARM
  1. To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless. Security disarms the best-appointed army. Fuller. The proud was half disarmed of pride. Tennyson. 2. To deprive of the means
• DISARMATURE
  The act of divesting of armature.
• DISARMAMENT
  The act of disarming.
• DISARMED
  Deprived of claws, and teeth or beaks. Cussans. (more info) 1. Deprived of arms.
• DISARMER
  One who disarms.
• SOFTEN
  To make soft or more soft. Specifically: -- To render less hard; -- said of matter. Their arrow's point they soften in the flame. Gay. To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable. Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the severe. Rambler.
• SOFTENING
  from Soften, v. Softening of the brain, or Cerebral softening , a localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation. Three varieties, distinguished by their color and representing different stages of the morbid process,