Definition

1. Verb:
   • To disarm: To remove weapons or ammunition from a person, group, or vehicle, often as a condition of surrender or to render them harmless.
   • To lay down one's arms: To surrender by putting down one's weapons and ceasing to fight.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Lực lượng đối phương đã đầu hàng và đồng ý giải giáp. (The opposing force surrendered and agreed to disarm.)
  • Mệnh lệnh là phải giải giáp hoàn toàn các binh sĩ bị bắt. (The order was to completely disarm the captured soldiers.)
  • Thà chết không chịu giải giáp. (Would rather die than lay down one's arms.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is primarily used in military, historical, or formal political contexts to describe the act of surrendering weapons or the process of demilitarization.
• It implies a formal, organized action, often following a conflict or as part of a treaty agreement.

Variants and Related Words

• Giải ngũ (v): To be demobilized, discharged from military service.
  • Sau chiến tranh, nhiều binh lính được giải ngũ. (After the war, many soldiers were demobilized.)
• Đầu hàng (v): To surrender (a more general term for capitulation).
• Tước vũ khí (v): To disarm (can be used in both military and general contexts, like disarming a civilian).

Synonyms

• Disarm: To deprive of weapons.
• Demilitarize: To remove military forces and installations from an area.
• Decommission: To take (a ship, weapon, or facility) out of active service.

Related Idioms

• Giải giáp quân bị: To disarm militarily; refers to the large-scale process of disarmament.
  • Hai nước đàm phán về việc giải giáp quân bị ở biên giới. (The two countries negotiated the military disarmament at the border.)

1. lay down one's arms
   • Thà chết không chịu giải giáp
     Would rather die than lay down one''s arms; to perfer death to surrennder
2. giải hạn
3. Relieve (someone) of his run of bad luck