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单词 rearm
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Definition of rearm in English:

rearm

verb riːˈɑːmriˈɑrm
[with object]
  • 1Provide with a new supply of weapons.

    his plan to rearm Germany
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As noted, although the Army would want to retain heavy elements well into the future, there would eventually be a need to rearm the heavy forces with a follow-on vehicle.
    • More generally it showed what considerable efforts the Third Republic had made towards rearming France in the late 1930s.
    • This unit is subject to attack and has a certain round trip time, so rearming units in the middle of combat at a distant front line can be a dicey proposition.
    • Within minutes, the soldiers had rearmed themselves with weapons and ammunition.
    • The torpedo planes that had been rearmed were brought up to the flight decks, beginning around 0920, but at least a third remained in the hangar decks at 1000.
    • Widespread fears loomed about the efficacy of the young democracy and the dangers of rearming a recently created German state.
    • British troops entered Greece in 1944, after the Resistance had liberated the country, only to rearm the fascist militias the Germans had created in order to turn them on the Resistance!
    • She gathered up her coat, already mentally rearming herself.
    • Despite initial reservations, they also played a major part in devising a satisfactory structure within which West Germany could be rearmed, and included in NATO in 1955.
    • After ready rounds are fired, crewman will need to rearm the launcher.
    • This is clear from the measures undertaken to rearm the German military - measures supported by all the parties.
    • After the Civil War, small-arms technology evolved rapidly, but a penurious Congress and an intractable ordnance board balked at rearming an entire army.
    • French and German opposition to the war has translated into an initiative to rearm Europe.
    • Dos Santos also repeated his accusation that Savimbi had used previous peace accords to buy time while he rearmed his troops.
    • The RF Armed Forces and other troops should be fully rearmed by 2020-2025.
    • Refueling and rearming them was an easy process.
    • American officers watched the Fascists consolidate their rule in Italy, Hitler rearm Germany, and Japan begin its march of conquest in Asia.
    • Some of the most strident support for amending Article 9 and rearming Japan is to be found in Washington, rather than Tokyo.
    • The holocaust and Hitler could have been prevented if the allies had stopped Hitler from rearming Germany.
    1. 1.1no object Acquire or build up a new supply of weapons.
      sanctions to prevent the regime from rearming
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Their rivals generally refuse to relinquish their weapons, fearing that in a pinch the government will rearm or fight on behalf of their enemy.
      • As if these and other excesses were not enough, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 increased the pressure to rearm severalfold, as the plan's previous targets were raised to new heights.
      • This was music to McClellan's ears, because it meant that the fighters would be using dummy weapons and would thus need to rearm at the tugs in order to combat his fleet.
      • To avoid another war, the Security Council quickly set up weapons inspections to prevent Baghdad from rearming.
      • After the German victories of 1940, America slowly began to rearm and to supply assistance to Britain.
      • During the relative peace following the Korean conflict, America rearmed for the Cold War.
      • But it gave Britain a valuable year in which to rearm.
      • But one of the islands was just large enough for an airfield and a small harbor, where submarines could rearm and refuel.
      • That means they'll rearm and they may very well develop weapons of mass destruction, just as a deterrent.
      • I think some of those troops that are withdrawing are actually going to rearm and refit themselves and then perhaps go back into the area to finish the job.
      • In recent months, there has been speculation that the two groups have established ties and that one goes on the offensive when the other negotiates, essentially to rest and rearm.
      • It did not, and its failure to do so was to be used by the Germans when they denounced those restrictions and began rearming fifteen years later.
      • Supposing that I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming and that we must be armed, does anyone think that our pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry?
      • He also questions why the South Koreans and Americans gave the enemy safe areas to rearm and regroup.
      • Hence even if disarmament were achieved, conflicts would eventually provoke rearming.
      • Six minutes later, a flight of helicopters that were participating in another operation arrived to be rearmed and refueled.
      • But most abhor rearming with nuclear weapons, which is very unpopular with the general public.
      • In the end, argues Doerr, it gave Britain the much needed time to rearm and prepare for war.
      • In 1938-9 Britain and France rearmed energetically and began to face the serious prospect of war with Germany if Hitler could not be deterred.
      • The political stalemate was broken; there was near unanimity that the USA must rearm immediately.

Derivatives

  • rearmament

  • noun rɪˈɑːməməntriˈɑrməmənt
    mass noun
    • The process of equipping military forces with a new supply of weapons.

      plans to spend $1 billion on rearmament of the army
      Example sentencesExamples
      • count noun the burden of rearmaments on the economy
      • The first chapter looks at the military aspects of the defeat: French military doctrine, rearmament, the strategy of the High Command, the conduct of the military operations.
      • The increase in the number of snipers to 18 per infantry battalion did not reflect the growing role of snipers as much as it reflected the rearmament of the Red Army.
      • Germany's original concept of the war had been a series of blitzkriegs, so rearmament had taken place rather in width than in depth; more extensive preparations for war had not been thought necessary.
 
 

Definition of rearm in US English:

rearm

verbriˈɑrmrēˈärm
[with object]
  • 1Provide with a new supply of weapons.

    his plan to rearm Germany
    Example sentencesExamples
    • More generally it showed what considerable efforts the Third Republic had made towards rearming France in the late 1930s.
    • After the Civil War, small-arms technology evolved rapidly, but a penurious Congress and an intractable ordnance board balked at rearming an entire army.
    • Refueling and rearming them was an easy process.
    • Within minutes, the soldiers had rearmed themselves with weapons and ammunition.
    • The holocaust and Hitler could have been prevented if the allies had stopped Hitler from rearming Germany.
    • American officers watched the Fascists consolidate their rule in Italy, Hitler rearm Germany, and Japan begin its march of conquest in Asia.
    • British troops entered Greece in 1944, after the Resistance had liberated the country, only to rearm the fascist militias the Germans had created in order to turn them on the Resistance!
    • Dos Santos also repeated his accusation that Savimbi had used previous peace accords to buy time while he rearmed his troops.
    • Widespread fears loomed about the efficacy of the young democracy and the dangers of rearming a recently created German state.
    • She gathered up her coat, already mentally rearming herself.
    • The RF Armed Forces and other troops should be fully rearmed by 2020-2025.
    • As noted, although the Army would want to retain heavy elements well into the future, there would eventually be a need to rearm the heavy forces with a follow-on vehicle.
    • This is clear from the measures undertaken to rearm the German military - measures supported by all the parties.
    • After ready rounds are fired, crewman will need to rearm the launcher.
    • The torpedo planes that had been rearmed were brought up to the flight decks, beginning around 0920, but at least a third remained in the hangar decks at 1000.
    • Despite initial reservations, they also played a major part in devising a satisfactory structure within which West Germany could be rearmed, and included in NATO in 1955.
    • Some of the most strident support for amending Article 9 and rearming Japan is to be found in Washington, rather than Tokyo.
    • This unit is subject to attack and has a certain round trip time, so rearming units in the middle of combat at a distant front line can be a dicey proposition.
    • French and German opposition to the war has translated into an initiative to rearm Europe.
    1. 1.1no object Acquire or build up a new supply of weapons.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This was music to McClellan's ears, because it meant that the fighters would be using dummy weapons and would thus need to rearm at the tugs in order to combat his fleet.
      • Six minutes later, a flight of helicopters that were participating in another operation arrived to be rearmed and refueled.
      • Hence even if disarmament were achieved, conflicts would eventually provoke rearming.
      • I think some of those troops that are withdrawing are actually going to rearm and refit themselves and then perhaps go back into the area to finish the job.
      • That means they'll rearm and they may very well develop weapons of mass destruction, just as a deterrent.
      • After the German victories of 1940, America slowly began to rearm and to supply assistance to Britain.
      • To avoid another war, the Security Council quickly set up weapons inspections to prevent Baghdad from rearming.
      • It did not, and its failure to do so was to be used by the Germans when they denounced those restrictions and began rearming fifteen years later.
      • As if these and other excesses were not enough, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 increased the pressure to rearm severalfold, as the plan's previous targets were raised to new heights.
      • But it gave Britain a valuable year in which to rearm.
      • During the relative peace following the Korean conflict, America rearmed for the Cold War.
      • In 1938-9 Britain and France rearmed energetically and began to face the serious prospect of war with Germany if Hitler could not be deterred.
      • In the end, argues Doerr, it gave Britain the much needed time to rearm and prepare for war.
      • But one of the islands was just large enough for an airfield and a small harbor, where submarines could rearm and refuel.
      • Their rivals generally refuse to relinquish their weapons, fearing that in a pinch the government will rearm or fight on behalf of their enemy.
      • The political stalemate was broken; there was near unanimity that the USA must rearm immediately.
      • In recent months, there has been speculation that the two groups have established ties and that one goes on the offensive when the other negotiates, essentially to rest and rearm.
      • Supposing that I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming and that we must be armed, does anyone think that our pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry?
      • But most abhor rearming with nuclear weapons, which is very unpopular with the general public.
      • He also questions why the South Koreans and Americans gave the enemy safe areas to rearm and regroup.
 
 
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