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Definition of Rearm

1. Verb. Arm again. "After the war, the defeated country was not rearmed by the victors"

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

Definition of Rearm

1. Verb. To replace or restore the weapons or arms of a previously defeated, or disarmed army, country, person or other body. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rearm

1. arm [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: arm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rearm

rearguard rearguards reargue reargued reargues rearguing reargument rearguments rearing rearing up

rearise rearisen rearises rearising rearly rearm (current term) rearmament rearmaments rearmed rearmice

rearming rearmouse rearmouses rearms rearomatization rearomatize rearomatizes rearomatizing rearose

Literary usage of Rearm

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

1. King's Complete History of the World War ...: 1914-1918. Europe's War with by William C. King (1922)
"His first care was to rearm the police, who had been deprived of their weapons by the traitor Eichhorn. Orders were issued for the arrest of the Spar- tacan ..."

2. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"... He scoop'd each vale, and rearM each mountain's His Word produced the nations of the earth, [head: And gave the spirits of the sky their birth, ..."

3. Songs, Odes, and Other Poems, on National Subjects: Compiled from Various by William McCarty (1842)
"When dis - cord had rearM her black stand - ard on high, And sent her hoarse voice thro'the sky—the aky, Con - vuls-inj all Nature with dreadful alarmi; ..."

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