armedadjective
uk/ɑːmd/us/ɑːrmd/B2 using or carrying weapons:
armed conflict
These men are armed and dangerous, and should not be approached.
Opposite
unarmed
armed to the teeth
informal carrying many weapons:
The gunman was reported as being armed to the teeth and equipped with both a rifle and a pistol.
More examples
- Early this morning, armed police surrounded a house which they thought contained an escaped prisoner.
- She entered the vault with an armed guard.
- Two armed men were caught trying to cross the frontier at night.
- The villagers are powerless against the armed invaders.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Providing weapons or taking weapons away
- arm
- armament
- arms control
- arms race
- bare
- capability
- decommission
- disarm
- disarmament
- gun control
- militarized
- nuclear-free
- pack
- peace dividend
- rearm
- reinforce
- tooled up
- unarmed
- under arms idiom
- with your bare hands idiom