单词 | offensive weapon |
释义 | > as lemmasoffensive weapon offensive weapon n. an instrument designed for use in attack, or an object which might so be used; also figurative. ΚΠ 1653 R. Mead Combat Love & Friendship v. iv. 74 Nay that's unequal, you being arm'd, and he having no offensive weapon but his tongue. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 53 Offensive weapons of all sorts, and military engines, which were deposited in the arsenals. 1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. xi. 189 The offensive weapons of the army are the bow, spear, javelin, sling. 1940 Ethics 50 155 In the hands of Marsiglio of Padua, the notion that the state was the natural instrument of the common good became a powerful offensive weapon. 1994 Guardian 18 Feb. i. 3/5 Why were they [sc. chainsticks] regarded as more dangerous than other offensive weapons such as knives or hammers? < as lemmas |
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