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weaponed

adj · verb · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Armed with a weapon.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 1846, Thomas Francis Meagher, The Secession Speech on the “Peace Resolutions” and the Exclusion of the “Nation” Newspaper from the Repeal Association, 26 July, 1846, in Arthur Griffith, editor, Meagher of the Sword, Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1916, p. 36, The man that will listen to reason, let him be reasoned with; but it is the weaponed arm of the patriot that can alone avail against battalioned despotism.

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2

adj

Meaning 2

Equipped, prepared.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively, not-comparable

Examples

  • 1992, X. J. Kennedy, “Terse Elegy for J. V. Cunningham,” first published in Dark Horses: New Poems; reprinted in In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955-2007, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, p. 113, Though with a slash a Pomp’s gut he could slit, On his own work he worked his weaponed wit And penned with patient skill and lore immense Prodigious mind, keen ear, rare common sense, Only those words he could crush down no more Like matter pressured to a dwarf star’s core.

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3

verb

Meaning 3

simple past and past participle of weapon

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

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4

adjective satellite

Meaning 4

carrying weapons

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: equipped

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From weapon + -ed.