Definition of Re-arm

1. Verb. Arm anew. "After the war, the defeated country was not allowed to rearm"

Exact synonyms: Rearm
Generic synonyms: Arm, Build Up, Fortify, Gird
Derivative terms: Rearmament

Lexicographical Neighbors of Re-arm

re-addicting
re-address
re-afforest
re-afforestation
re-aggravate
re-aggravated
re-aggravates
re-aggravating
re-aggravation
re-aggravations
re-allied
re-allies
re-ally
re-allying
re-argue
re-arm (current term)
re-attach
re-attached
re-attaches
re-attaching
re-cognise
re-cognize
re-constrict
re-constricted
re-constricting
re-constriction
re-constrictions
re-constricts
re-cover

Literary usage of Re-arm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. El Salvador at War: An Oral History of Conflict from the 1979 Insurrection edited by Max G. Manwaring, Court Prisk (1995)
"... Earthquake: The Military Loses Momentum and Insurgents Re-Arm Colonel John C. Ellerson—I got here in the wake of the earthquake that colored everything. ..."

2. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1908)
"There are the opinions of eminent statesmen who have expressed their views on the proposition to re-arm the Volunteer field artillery with modern guns. ..."

3. Lexicographia-neologica Gallica: The Neological French Dictionary by William Dupré (1801)
"R£AHMER, va to re-arm, or arm.anew. ... de superstition—To re-arm the peasants of la Vendee, a superstitious, enthusiastic people. ..."

4. The Comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals by Auguste Chauveau (1887)
"... over the extern»! muscles of the fi 're-arm; excise, lengthways, the inferior extremity of the ..."

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