armed

[Armed]

If you're armed, you are carrying some kind of weapon. Armed soldiers are most commonly supplied with guns.

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Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished with the means of security or protection.

Adjective
(used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms; "armed robbery"

Adjective
used of plants and animals

Adjective
having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination; "the many-armed goddess Shiva"


imp. & p. p.
of Arm

a.
Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished with the means of security or protection.

a.
Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.

a.
Having horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts and birds of prey.


Armed

Armed , a. 1. Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished with the means of security or protection. "And armed host." Dryden. 2. Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.
A distemper eminently armed from heaven.
3. (Her.) Having horns, beak, talons, etc; -- said of beasts and birds of prey. Armed at all points (Blazoning), completely incased in armor, sometimes described as armed cap-'85-pie. Cussans. -- Armed en flute. (Naut.) See under Flute. -- Armed magnet, a magnet provided with an armature. -- Armed neutrality. See under Neutrality.

Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished with the means of security or protection.

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Usage Examples

Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

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