DEMILITARISES Synonyms

• To take out of service or to render unusable.

• To remove or revoke a commission.

• To remove or revoke a formal designation.

• retire from military service

• To ban, remove or reduce the numbers of nuclear weapons in an area.

• remove offensive capability from

• make less hostile; win over

• take away the weapons from; render harmless

• release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles

• free or remove obstruction from

• become free

• make politically neutral and thus inoffensive

• make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of

• oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions

• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

• make incapable of military action

• make chemically neutral

• cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

• fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location)

• pull back or move away or backward

• withdraw from active participation

• release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles

• cause to be returned

• take back what one has said

• keep away from others

• break from a meeting or gathering

• retire gracefully

• remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)

• lose interest

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

• remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract