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
There was only one of Griffin's men left, and all the rest of the crowd of half-armed men were townsfolk.
From Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
But ever he seemed to be the leader of this or that desperate venture, wherein the rescue of some outlying, half-armed band, comprising women and children, was the object, and that against large odds.
From In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford
