Unarmed
[ʌn'ɑːmd] or ['ʌn'ɑrmd]
Definition
(adj.) (used of persons or the military) not having or using arms; 'went alone and unarmed'; 'unarmed peasants were shot down'; 'unarmed vehicles' .
(adj.) (used of plants or animals) lacking barbs or stings or thorns .
Checked by Harriet--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not armed or armored; having no arms or weapons.
(a.) Having no hard and sharp projections, as spines, prickles, spurs, claws, etc.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Defenceless, naked, unprotected, unguarded.
Typist: Marietta
Examples
- The fact that they alone of all the party were unarmed might account for the fact that they had killed no one. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Wait, she whispered, leave them to me, and pushing me advanced, all defenceless and unarmed, upon the snarling banths. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I did not wish to strike him again, nor was it necessary, since he was unarmed and therefore quite harmless to me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I have avoided killing those who are unarmed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I am unarmed and no enemy, I hastened to explain. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Naked and unarmed as I was, I had no desire to face the unseen thing which menaced me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Down pour the united nomads on the unwarlike, unarmed plains, and there ensues a war of conquest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Six Nations will not defile their own land with the blood of men that come unarmed to ask for peace. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I saw no inhabitants in the place where I landed, and being unarmed, I was afraid of venturing far into the country. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Merchants and traders in unarmed ships, who accommodate different nations by communicating and exchanging the necessaries and conveniences of life. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Is it not the extreme of rashness to thus put ourselves again, unarmed, in the power of the First Born? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He was walking in a procession into the theatre unarmed, in a white robe, and he was cut down by one of his bodyguard. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- An assassin does not come unarmed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Instead of being a destroyer of merchandise, this new craft was an unarmed carrier of merchandise. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Marietta