What part of speech is armed?

Armed can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. armed is a verb, past participle of arm (infinitive).
  • 2. armed is a verb, past simple of arm (infinitive).
  • 3. armed is an adjective.

Inflections

Verb

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • armed 
    more armed
    most armed
  • Positive: armed 
  • Comparative: more armed
  • Superlative: most armed

What does armed mean?

Definitions

Adjective
armed - (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns
armed - (used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms; "armed robbery"
armed - having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination; "the many-armed goddess Shiva"

Verb
arm - prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqi border"
arm - supply with arms; "The U.S. armed the freedom fighters in Afghanistan"
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Examples of armed

#   Sentence  
1. adj. Armed robbery.
2. adj. The many-armed goddess Shiva.
3. adj. Even the IP and ICDC have abandoned the neighbourhood, and those are trained and armed, so don't expect scared civilians to do anything except to hide inside and pray a helicopter or a tank doesn't bomb them, and also how are American soldiers going to distinguish the brave and valiant civilians from the Fedayeen?
4. adj. It is estimated to have some 5,000 armed fighters, and they have pursued attacks against Israeli forces to compel them to withdraw from the Shebaa Farms, a sliver of Syrian territory that Israel annexed after the 1967 war.
5. adj. Armed militias, many staffed by former Iraqi military men with substantial training and experience, have proliferated.
6. adj. An Iraq in which armed fundamentalist and nationalist militias proliferate is inevitably a security worry for Israel.
7. adj. At weekend press conferences in Salt Lake City and Phoenix, FBI and state officials said Jeffs "is considered armed and dangerous and may be traveling with armed bodyguards."
8. adj. Heavily armed police have been trying to impose a form of martial law to stem outbreaks of looting.
9. adj. And the President becomes a Dictator, unrestrained by anything in the Constitution, backed up by the Armed Forces, which would be entirely under his personal control.
10. adj. The armed forces succeeded in occupying the entire territory.
11. adj. The armed forces occupied the entire territory.
12. adj. Police shot the armed robber in the head - he died almost immediately.
13. adj. A radical disarmament treaty prohibits all armaments and armed forces.
14. adj. Four armed men held up the bank and escaped with $4 million.
15. adj. The armed hijackers terrified the passengers.
16. verb These Shiite movements had been suppressed by Saddam Hussein's regime, but have now organized and armed themselves.
17. verb The art of modern warfare does not necessarily require soldiers to be armed to the teeth to be effective as combatants.
18. verb Mexican desperadoes during the early twenties were usually armed to the teeth with stolen firearms and ammunition.
19. verb Armed only with a short sword, he drove off all five of his attackers.
20. verb He armed himself with all the facts before asking questions at the meeting.
21. verb They armed themselves with rifles.
22. verb They armed themselves with guns.
23. verb For, in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery: but in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt.
24. verb Tom armed himself with a gun and a knife.
25. verb He armed himself with a gun and went to face the enemy camp.
26. verb They were three and they were all armed.
27. verb Auto-destruct sequence armed.
28. verb He is armed to the teeth.
29. verb She is armed to the teeth.
30. verb That warship armed with eight cannons is a "Queen Elizabeth" class.
Sentence  
adj.
Armed robbery.
The many-armed goddess Shiva.
Even the IP and ICDC have abandoned the neighbourhood, and those are trained and armed, so don't expect scared civilians to do anything except to hide inside and pray a helicopter or a tank doesn't bomb them, and also how are American soldiers going to distinguish the brave and valiant civilians from the Fedayeen?
It is estimated to have some 5,000 armed fighters, and they have pursued attacks against Israeli forces to compel them to withdraw from the Shebaa Farms, a sliver of Syrian territory that Israel annexed after the 1967 war.
Armed militias, many staffed by former Iraqi military men with substantial training and experience, have proliferated.
An Iraq in which armed fundamentalist and nationalist militias proliferate is inevitably a security worry for Israel.
At weekend press conferences in Salt Lake City and Phoenix, FBI and state officials said Jeffs "is considered armed and dangerous and may be traveling with armed bodyguards."
Heavily armed police have been trying to impose a form of martial law to stem outbreaks of looting.
And the President becomes a Dictator, unrestrained by anything in the Constitution, backed up by the Armed Forces, which would be entirely under his personal control.
The armed forces succeeded in occupying the entire territory.
The armed forces occupied the entire territory.
Police shot the armed robber in the head - he died almost immediately.
A radical disarmament treaty prohibits all armaments and armed forces.
Four armed men held up the bank and escaped with $4 million.
The armed hijackers terrified the passengers.
verb
These Shiite movements had been suppressed by Saddam Hussein's regime, but have now organized and armed themselves.
The art of modern warfare does not necessarily require soldiers to be armed to the teeth to be effective as combatants.
Mexican desperadoes during the early twenties were usually armed to the teeth with stolen firearms and ammunition.
Armed only with a short sword, he drove off all five of his attackers.
He armed himself with all the facts before asking questions at the meeting.
They armed themselves with rifles.
They armed themselves with guns.
For, in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery: but in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt.
Tom armed himself with a gun and a knife.
He armed himself with a gun and went to face the enemy camp.
They were three and they were all armed.
Auto-destruct sequence armed.
He is armed to the teeth.
She is armed to the teeth.
That warship armed with eight cannons is a "Queen Elizabeth" class.
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