rearm
verb
re·arm
(ˌ)rē-ˈärm 
rearmed; rearming; rearms
: to arm (a nation, a military force, etc.) again with new or better weapons
: to become armed again
Examples of rearm in a Sentence
The treaty forbids the country to rearm.
Another country was rearming their enemies.
Recent Examples on the Web
The alliance is walking a tightrope of rearming and increasing military spending while avoiding provoking Moscow and escalating what is already the deadliest war on European soil in decades.
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Luke McGee, CNN, 20 June 2024
In 2021, under Boris Johnson, the U.K. stopped reducing its weapons stockpile and became the world’s only nuclear-armed country apart from China to openly rearm—with a plan to add up to eighty warheads, an increase of some forty per cent, by the mid-twenty-twenties.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 June 2024
This covert partnership collapsed when Hitler took power, but not before giving him a vital, deadly head start in Europe’s race to rearm in the 1930s.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2024
War-weary and disoriented, the German population was reluctant to rearm when a war had just led to their society’s destruction.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
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Luke McGee, CNN, 20 June 2024
In 2021, under Boris Johnson, the U.K. stopped reducing its weapons stockpile and became the world’s only nuclear-armed country apart from China to openly rearm—with a plan to add up to eighty warheads, an increase of some forty per cent, by the mid-twenty-twenties.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 June 2024
This covert partnership collapsed when Hitler took power, but not before giving him a vital, deadly head start in Europe’s race to rearm in the 1930s.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2024
War-weary and disoriented, the German population was reluctant to rearm when a war had just led to their society’s destruction.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
See all Example Sentences for rearm
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“Rearm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rearm. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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