unarmed
IPA: ʌnˈɑrmd
adjective
- Defenceless and lacking weapons.
- Lacking both weapons and protective armour.
- (biology) Not having thorns, claws, or other dangerous appendages.
- (obsolete) Unaided, as of the vision without a glass.
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Examples of "unarmed" in Sentences
- In the sport, two men would face each other – naked – and battle in unarmed combat.
- You don't go behind enemy lines and walk in unarmed or without a clue as to the agenda in place to make you look bad/weak/dishonest.
- I question the use of “hyperrealistic” to describe “severing heads and limbs” in unarmed combat — but the movements are, or can be, hyperrealistic.
- I also expect that anyone who regards a firearm as suitable mitigation methods ought to at least have minimal training in unarmed self defense and trauma first aid.
- A Raven FAC needed a fighter pilot's experience and mentality, but was obliged to fly slow and low in unarmed and vulnerable aircraft such as the Cessna O-1 Bird Dog or a U-17, a standard
- The Prophet trilogy strives to reconcile the materialist conception of history with the importance of the "great man," and though the trope of prophecy armed and unarmed is taken from the sixth chapter of Machiavelli's The Prince, it would be a dull ear that did not also detect the cadences of the Pentateuch.
- It was felt to be natural that the natives should resent the occupation of their hunting grounds; and although they were shot down without mercy in fair fight, or if overtaken while carrying off cattle, there was no active feeling of animosity against them; and they were generally kindly treated, when they called unarmed at the stations, and asked for food.
- Shelley notes twice this dual citizenship, both times pointing out that the soldiers are men and Englishmen: "In the first place, the soldiers are men and Englishmen, and it is not to be believed that they would massacre an unresisting multitude of their countrymen drawn up in unarmed array before them and bearing in their looks the calm, deliberate resolution to perish rather than abandon the assertion of their rights" (257).
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