armed
adjective
having a specified number or kind of arms (often used in combination): a weak-armed quarterback.
half-armed
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a word derived from
armed.
Example Sentences
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So, if it boils down to a battle of wits between Cohen and Trump, I’d candidly say Trump comes into the battle only half-armed.
From Salon ● May 13, 2024
Up to the present this war has been waged between a fully armed Germany and a quarter-or half-armed British Empire.
From Time Magazine Archive
What chance—what shadow of a chance—had those poor, untrained, half-armed farmers at Concord?
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
For half-armed countrymen to storm a royal ship seems heavy odds of failure.
From Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 by Various
When the boy returned, bearing a bundle of garments, and two or three such crests as were worn by the nobler Mexicans, in time of war, the cavalier had more than half-armed himself.
From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird
