forearming
- present participle of forearm.
Example Sentences
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This, after all, is a woman who dislocated her shoulder three years ago while forearming a raccoon off her deck to protect her Labrador retriever.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2011
One of the smug assumptions of the cold war era was that the U.S. was forearming itself with a stockpile of strategically scarce commodities to see it through a wartime siege.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had a presentiment that in this way God was forearming him for some extraordinary trial; and the loss of his wife seemed to him most likely to be that trial.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by Prentiss, George L.
"Forewarning," she said gloomily, "is a torture when forearming avails naught."
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth
