rearmverb [ I or T ]
uk/ˌriːˈɑːm/us/ˌriːˈɑːrm/to supply yourself or others with new weapons, especially in order to become a strong military power again
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Providing weapons or taking weapons away
- arm
- armament
- armed
- arms control
- arms race
- bare
- capability
- decommission
- disarm
- disarmament
- gun control
- militarized
- nuclear-free
- pack
- peace dividend
- reinforce
- tooled up
- unarmed
- under arms idiom
- with your bare hands idiom
rearmament
noun [ U ] uk/riˈɑː.mə.mənt/us/riˈɑːr.mə.mənt/