heavily armed

idiom

: carrying many dangerous weapons
a group of heavily armed men

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The camera keeps tight on Dragan as the heavily armed soldiers approach the compartment containing him, the Muslim man and several other passengers. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025 Unlike previous handovers, the hostages, flanked by heavily armed gunmen, made statements before the crowd. Jerome Socolovsky, NPR, 8 Feb. 2025 There are armored vehicles, scores of heavily armed police officers, street blockades, drones and more – transforming the party-friendly, pedestrian-heavy Bourbon Street to a scene akin to the presidential inauguration. Jason Morris, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025 Stateless, unemployed, resentful, which other nation would risk its own stability to absorb 1.5 million hungry, frustrated, angry, heavily armed refugees? Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for heavily armed 

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“Heavily armed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavily%20armed. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.

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