Possible Clues:

• Render harmless, in a way
• Deprive of heat?
• Turn swords into plowshares, e.g.
• Strip of weapons
• Take a piece to organisation with a return address
• Leave weaponless
• Neutralise defence of football team containing right back
• Take a weapon from
• For Florence, a room free of destructive devices
• Render harmless, as a gunman