armed
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2.5
- adjective
- /ɑrmd/
- Specialized
- a one-armed figure
Examples
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Do you see a lot of one-armed men in here?
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And then he encountered yet again that one-armed individual, a sort of local celebrity.
Fiction book (1999) -
It was the one-armed man.
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At the counter, a one-armed man in a baseball cap was drinking Pepsi from a bottle.
Fiction book (1995) -
I was a nerdy graduate student at the time, armed only with a laptop and a fascination with jihadi literature.
Academic text (2010) -
The soldier was proud to be an armed member of the military during the ceremony.
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The museum displayed a collection of ancient sculptures, some of which were armed with intricate details.
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In the painting, the hero stands confidently, armed with a sword and shield against the dark forces.
Synonyms
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6.4
With arms or legs, often used to describe people with long ones
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
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9.1
An armed left-wing group in Colombia that fought the government and used kidnapping and the drug trade to fund itself
- NSFW
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9.9
A Rwandan rebel group that fought to overthrow the Tutsi government and restore Hutu rule
- NSFW
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9.3
A group of Islamic extremists in Algeria that uses violent attacks to try to make an Islamic state
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3.0
A day each year in the United States to honour people who serve in the military
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9.9
An armed group in Algeria that used violence in the 1990s to try to create an Islamic state
- Literature
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7.4
A political party in Colombia formed by former fighters after the 2016 peace talks
The reading and blocking of letters and messages sent to or from soldiers by military leaders
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Armed can also mean 'having arms' (limbs) and here it uses the familiar word arm 'limb'. So a five-armed starfish simply has five 'arms', just like your arm reaches out.