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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective provided with protective covering; -- used of animals. Opposite of unarmored.
  • adjective same as armor-clad; -- used of persons or things military. Opposite of unarmored.

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  • adjective Possessing armour.
  • adjective military Equipped with armoured vehicles.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of armour.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective used of animals; provided with protective covering
  • adjective protected by armor (used of persons or things military)

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Examples

  • One has to wonder how the Iraqi's will feel about having to wait for their equipment when they too are driving around in armoured Land Rovers - with the same tragic results experienced by the British Army – and are expected to take on increasing responsibility for patrolling from the British.

    I got it wrong Richard 2006

  • We then made our way to Baragwanath to try and see what we could do there, but on the way to Baragwanath we came across an additional convoy of police cars and in armoured cars that were driving down Potchefstroom Road towards Orlando.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • At $222, they’ll be transporting cigarettes in armoured vehicles … —

    When a Pack of Cigarettes Costs $222 - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • Nathalie Gray 10:19 pm: I LOVE the idea of armoured dirigibles.

    Transcript: Steampunk Romance « Coyote Con 2010

  • In ten minutes the so-called armoured plate was riddled.

    The Kangaroo Marines R. W. Campbell

  • They're safely back in the bunker ordering the privates, corporals and sergeants to climb aboard our motorized tin cans, known as armoured vehicles, and patrol that God-forsaken desert -- knowing full well roadside bombs could blow them to bits.

    Toronto Sun 2009

  • I could see the ankle-length gambeson as a great base for any kind of armoured character, honestly.

    thoughts on lrp and characters nathreee 2010

  • He said Alexkor recently "armoured" a particular slimes dam with coarse overburden to stop a windblown "plume" of fine material that was threatening the proclaimed Ramsar wetland site at the mouth of the Orange River.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • In recent years, Britain has been pulled up for the sale of military and security equipment such as armoured vehicles to

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • It is interesting to guess for oneself and to speculate upon the possibility of a kind of armoured mother-ship for waterplanes and submarines and torpedo craft, but necessarily that would be a mere journalistic and amateurish guessing.

    An Englishman Looks at the World 1906

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