armed
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/adjective
1Equipped with or carrying a firearm or firearms: heavily armed troops...
- Some 3,000 car-jackings occur every month carried out by people armed with semi-automatic weapons.
- If we wished to make war, we certainly would not want to fight soldiers armed with blades such as these.
- The Bill will see the same power extended to troops, armed with even more deadly weapons, operating under conditions of serious unrest.
1.1Involving the use of firearms: armed robbery...
- The use of firearms in an armed robbery has declined in recent years, and at the same time there has been a dramatic increase in the use of other weapons, particularly knives, but also syringes.
- The number of reported sexual assaults rose by 150 per cent and the number of armed robberies using firearms was up 67 per cent.
- Police believe banning sales of replica guns will lead to a drop in armed robberies and firearms incidents.
2 Heraldry Having claws, a beak, etc. of a specified tincture: a lion rampant argent, armed and langued azure
Phrases
armed to the teeth