ARMED Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

Definition of armed

as in fortified

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armed

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verb

past tense of arm

as in prepared

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Recent Examples of armed

Adjective

Tensions between the Koreas have increased in recent weeks after three South Korean soldiers were injured in land mine explosions last month near the heavily armed inter-Korean border. — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026 The armed immigration agent then shoots Melanie in response, and his partner subsequently dies. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026

Verb

The person opened the door armed with a sword and stabbed a Boston Police officer in the arm and knocked the clinician to the ground, according to police. — Riley Rourke, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for armed

Recent Examples of Synonyms for armed

Adjective

For 35 years, his Virginia Beach firm has engineered fortified homes and shelters for private clients and the military, including a nearly 15,000-square-foot refuge in the Appalachian Mountains and compounds hidden in the Rockies.

— Megan Buerger, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
This settlement has resulted in a kind of MAGA utopia, a fortified Xanadu where children can play in the front yard.

— Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of fortified

Adjective

Why a 'partial yield' works so quickly When your partner confronts you, some part of them is preemptively braced for the effort of convincing you.

— Mark Travers, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2026
Ahead of the weekend, the drivers seemed braced for chaos because of the track’s high-speed stretches, tight corners, and narrow surface.

— Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of braced

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Cybersecurity and software Top picks in cybersecurity and software are Palantir Technologies with a $250 price target and implied upside of 30%, and CrowdStrike — which the analyst assigned a $335 price target signaling a gain of 20%.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Discovery and development Clozapine was named in 1959 by researchers at the Swiss pharmaceutical company Wander AG, where it had been initially synthesized the previous year and assigned the identifier HF-1854.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of assigned

Adjective

There was a wide stone wall on which someone had placed a row of ripe quinces from a nearby tree.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Le is particularly fond of the store’s Thai green bananas, which remain bright green even when fully ripe and develop an intensely sweet flavor.

— Sara Rosenthal, Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of ripe

Verb

In the United States, it is primarily allocated for off highway vehicles such as agricultural machinery and construction equipment.

— , CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Erdos, the Department of Interior official, said that cleanup funds are typically allocated after a collapse or incident occurs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026