armoured

Speech parts

1. armoured - Adjective

2. armoured - Verb

Meaning

protected by armor (used of persons or things military)

used of animals; provided with protective covering

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

armored mailed APC armadillo breastplate protected safe concrete tank armor fortified scaled mechanized shielded invincible
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Antonyms

weak vulnerable uncertain helpless frail defenseless
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Phrases with the word

armoured vanguard vehicle armoured soldier armoured citadel armoured cars armoured crewman armoured gurnard

Examples

Didn't they know that the only unhackable computer is one that's running a secure operating system, welded inside a steel safe, buried under a ton of concrete at the bottom of a coal mine guarded by the SAS and a couple of armoured divisions, and switched off? Charles Stross

Their horse cavalry, of which they had twelve brigades, charged valiantly against the swarming tanks and armoured cars but could not harm them with their swords and lances. Winston Churchill

English as tuppence, changing yet changeless as canal-water, nestling in green nowhere, armoured and effete, bold flag-bearer, lotus fed Miss Havishambling, opsimath and eremite, feudal-still reactionary Rawlinson End. The story so far. Vivian Stanshall

The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer. Franz Halder

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. James Buchan

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles. Antony Beevor

Close letter words and terms

armour-piercing armour-plated armourbearer armoured box armoured bus armoured cable