| 单词 | armed |
| 释义 | armed (once / 128 pages) adj If you're armed, you are carrying some kind of weapon. Armed soldiers are most commonly supplied with guns. In the United States, police officers are almost always armed, while British police usually don't carry guns. When a crime involves the use of a weapon, it might be described as an armed robbery, and even an animal is sometimes said to be armed: "The cat was armed with sharp teeth and claws against the puppy's enthusiasm." The Latin root is arma, "weapons," or "tools of war." WORD FAMILYarm: armament, armed, armful, arming, armless, armlet, armlike, armor, arms, disarm, forearm, overarm, re-arm, rearm, unarm, underarm+/armament: armaments/armful: armfuls/arming: armings/armlet: armlets/armor: armored, armorer, armoring, armors/armored: unarmored/armorer: armorers/disarm: disarmament, disarmed, disarmer, disarming, disarms/disarmament: disarmaments/disarmer: disarmers/disarming: disarmingly, disarmings/forearm: forearmed, forearming, forearms/rearm: rearmament, rearmed, rearming, rearms/rearmament: rearmaments/unarm: unarmed, unarming, unarms/underarm: underarms USAGE EXAMPLESOfficials say Morales may be armed and is considered extremely dangerous. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) An armed forces medical examiner categorized the death as a homicide. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) In October of 1992, heavily armed military police stormed the penitentiary to quell a riot, spurring charges of indiscriminate killing by authorities. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination the many- armed goddess Shiva Syn|Ant armlike resembling an arm brachiatehaving arms or armlike appendages long-armedhaving relatively long arms one-armedhaving one arm armless having no arms 2adj (used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms armed robbery Syn|Ant equipped, weaponed carrying weapons light-armedarmed with light equipment and weapons militarised, militarizedissued military arms unarmed (used of persons or the military) not having or using arms barehandedwith bare hands cleannot carrying concealed weapons defenceless, defenselesslacking weapons for self-defense weaponlesswithout a weapon 3adj (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns Syn|Ant barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. bristlelikeresembling a bristle brushlikeresembling a brush thistlelikeresembling a thistle clawed, taloned(of predatory animals) armed with claws or talons unarmed (used of plants or animals) lacking barbs or stings or thorns spineless, thornlesslacking thorns |
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