Armed

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Equipped, especially with a weapon.
  • adj. prepared for use; loaded.
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of arm.
  • adj. Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.
  • adj. Coloured in a different tincture from the beast or bird itself.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished with the means of security or protection.
  • adj. Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.
  • adj. Having horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts and birds of prey.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Bearing arms; furnished with means of offense and defense: as, an armed force or ship; “the armed rhinoceros,”
  • Supported by arms; carried on or maintained by force or readiness for military action: as, an armed inroad; armed peace or neutrality.
  • In heraldry, having the beaks, talons, horns, or teeth, or, of an arrow or lance, having the head, of the color specified: as, a lion gules armed or. The word is not used for the horns of a hart or buck. See attired.
  • In physical, furnished with an armature or a piece of iron so as to connect the poles, as a horseshoe magnet.
  • In botany, having prickles or thorns.
  • In heraldry, dressed in complete plate-armor, but having the vizor open: said of a warrior used as a bearing or supporter.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms
  • adj. (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns
  • adj. having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination
  • Equivalent
    weaponed    militarised    equipped    militarized    light-armed    bristly    bristled    briery    thorny    briary   
    Antonym
    unarmed   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    equipped    panoplied    forearmed   
    Verb Stem
    arm   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    alarmed    charmed    disarmed    farmed    harmed    unarmed    unharmed