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armored

[ ahr-merd ]

adjective

  1. protected by armor or armor plate.
  2. provided with or using armored equipment, as tanks or armored cars:

    an armored unit;

    an armored patrol.



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Other Words From

  • un·armored adjective
  • well-armored adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of armored1

First recorded in 1595–1605; armor + -ed 3

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Example Sentences

Hence the SWAT teams and armored trucks surrounding his house.

In front of its offices in Donetsk, there is an armored military vehicle.

CEO of armored car company tests his merchandise from the inside.

Sergei's comrades there are still waiting for the armored personnel carriers promised by the defense ministry months ago, he says.

His son had come back a hero of the Second Armored Division, and he still had enough paintings to do business and live well.

Dis whole job is a pipe, wit' us havin' a Monitor gun to open dat armored truck.

He saw that the back door of the armored truck was opening and another guard was getting out.

How the payroll cash was brought from up the line in an armored car to the bank before opening time in the morning.

The encounter between the Merrimack and the Monitor had set the world agog on the matter of armored vessels.

Whenever I get into this anti-mosquito rig, I feel like an armored train!

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