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Definition of Armoured
1. Adjective. Used of animals; provided with protective covering.
Similar to: Bone-covered, Scaled, Scaley, Scaly, Silver-scaled
Antonyms: Unarmored
2. Adjective. Protected by armor (used of persons or things military).
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Similar to: Armor-clad, Armor-plated, Armour-clad, Armour-plated, Steel-plated, Bony-plated, Bulletproof, Lightly Armored, Lightly Armoured, Mail-cheeked, Mail-clad, Mailed, Scaled
Antonyms: Unarmored
Definition of Armoured
1. Adjective. Possessing armour. ¹
2. Adjective. (military) Equipped with armoured vehicles. ¹
3. Verb. (past of armour) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Armoured
1. armour [v] - See also: armour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Armoured
Literary usage of Armoured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. We; a Confession of Faith for the American People During and After the War by Gerald Stanley Lee (1916)
"When an armoured millionaire's labourer tries to fight him with some other form
of main force or violence than money, the armoured millionaire asks the ..."
2. The British Navy: Its Strength, Resources, and Administration by Thomas Brassey Brassey (1882)
"The vessels of the ' Monitor' type were far more formidable for coast service
than any armoured vessels which could be found at that date in European waters ..."
3. Brave Belgians by Camille Buffin (1918)
"7 armoured car attached to the Cavalry Division. I will begin by congratulating
those who invented and thought out this engine of warfare. ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"that the armoured deck was to be broken through to let the cables be stowed lower,
and that an allowance might be made for immersed materials ; and by these ..."
5. Transactions by Stirling Natural History and Archaeological Society, American philosophical society (1905)
"... armoured effigy and the female figure occupied a recumbent position in the
arched opening. There is sufficient room for tie two figures side by side, ..."
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