armed

English

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Etymology 1

• Past participle of arm (below).

Adjective

armed (comparative more armed, superlative most armed)

1. (sometimes in combination) Equipped, especially with a weapon.

   nuclear-armed

2. (Of a weapon) prepared for use; loaded.

Derived terms

• armed forces
• armed robber
• armed robbery
• armed to the teeth

Translations

equipped, especially with a weapon

• Albanian: armatosur (i/e)
• Bulgarian: въоръжен (bg) (vǎorǎžen)
• Dutch: gewapend (nl)
• Finnish: aseistautunut (the person has armed him-/herself), aseistettu (someone else has armed him/her)
• French: armé (fr)
• German: bewaffnet (de)
• Greek: ένοπλος (el) (énoplos) m

• Italian: armato (it)
• Latin: armatus (la) m
• Polish: uzbrojony (pl) m
• Portuguese: armado (pt)
• Romanian: armat (ro)
• Russian: вооружённый (ru) (vooružónnyj), вооружившийся (ru) (vooružívšijs'a)
• Spanish: armado (es)

prepared for use

• Greek: οπλισμένος (el) (oplisménos) m
• Russian: снаряжённый (ru) (snarjažónnyj), (figurative) вооружённый (ru) (vooružónnyj)

Verb

armed

1. simple past tense and past participle of arm

Etymology 2

arm (“the upper limb of the body”) +‎ -ed

Adjective

armed (not comparable)

1. (chiefly in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.
2. (heraldry, of horns, teeth, beaks, etc.) Coloured in a different tincture from the beast or bird itself.

Derived terms

• one-armed
• two-armed

Anagrams

• ad rem
• derma
• dream
• m'dear
• ramed