armored

[ ahr-merd ]

/ ˈɑr mərd /

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adjective

protected by armor or armor plate.

provided with or using armored equipment, as tanks or armored cars: an armored unit;an armored patrol.

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Origin of armored

First recorded in 1595–1605; armor + -ed³

OTHER WORDS FROM armored

un·ar·mored, adjectivewell-armored, adjective

Words nearby armored

armlock, armoire, armor, armorbearer, armor-clad, armored, armored cable, armored car, armored personnel carrier, armored rope, armored scale

How to use armored in a sentence

As waves hit an armored shoreline, they pull sand off the beach.
Hawaii’s Beaches Are Disappearing. New Legislation Could Help ... if It’s Enforced.|by Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser|February 7, 2021|ProPublica
Bees fly, beetles crawl like tiny armored tanks and the Australian walking stick has camouflaged itself to look like a leaf mixed with a scorpion.
Explainer: Insects, arachnids and other arthropods|Curtis Segarra|January 19, 2021|Science News For Students
Just last year, El Cajon sought an armored personnel vehicle, known as a Bearcat.
Council Unknowingly OK’d Surveillance Gear for Secretive Police Group|Jesse Marx|January 13, 2021|Voice of San Diego
He questioned the logic of approving new seawalls just because other parts of the shoreline are armored.
Officials Let Hawaii’s Waterfront Homeowners Damage Public Beaches Again and Again|by Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser|December 31, 2020|ProPublica

To see how protective the armor is, the researchers tested the hardness of the ant exoskeleton by poking armored and nonarmored pieces until an indentation formed.
Mineral body armor helps some leaf-cutting ants win fights with bigger kin|Christie Wilcox|November 24, 2020|Science News
Hence the SWAT teams and armored trucks surrounding his house.
Hunt for Iraq Vet After Killing Spree|M.L. Nestel|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In front of its offices in Donetsk, there is an armored military vehicle.
The Corrupt Cops of Rebel-Held East Ukraine|Kristina Jovanovski|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
CEO of armored car company tests his merchandise from the inside.
Occupied SUV Fired On With AK-47|Jack Holmes, The Daily Beast Video|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sergei's comrades there are still waiting for the armored personnel carriers promised by the defense ministry months ago, he says.
Corruption Eats Away at Ukraine Military|Charles McPhedran|October 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His son had come back a hero of the Second Armored Division, and he still had enough paintings to do business and live well.
My Grandfather's War: Recovering the Art the Nazis Stole|Anne Sinclair|October 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Dis whole job is a pipe, wit' us havin' a Monitor gun to open dat armored truck.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
He saw that the back door of the armored truck was opening and another guard was getting out.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
How the payroll cash was brought from up the line in an armored car to the bank before opening time in the morning.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
The encounter between the Merrimack and the Monitor had set the world agog on the matter of armored vessels.
The Boys of '61|Charles Carleton Coffin.
Whenever I get into this anti-mosquito rig, I feel like an armored train!
The Call of the Beaver Patrol|V. T. Sherman