1
: not armed or armored
unarmed civilians
also
: not using or involving a weapon
unarmed robbery
2
: having no hard and sharp projections (such as spines, spurs, or claws)
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In this teen drama, Carpenter plays a prep school classmate of Black student Starr (Amandla Stenberg), who witnesses a cop shoot and kill her unarmed friend after a routine traffic stop.
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Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2024
The nearly two-week delay between Neely’s death and Penny’s arrest saw civil rights protesters take to the city’s streets and subway tracks to protest the unaccounted-for killing of a poor and unarmed Black man in public.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024
Upon being captured, the prisoners were shot after being made to lie on the ground unarmed, said the report.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
Responding to these allegations, the chief minister of the Punjab region, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, said police deployed to stop the protesters were unarmed, and in turn accused the marchers of wielding shotguns, knives and teargas shells.
—Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2024
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Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2024
The nearly two-week delay between Neely’s death and Penny’s arrest saw civil rights protesters take to the city’s streets and subway tracks to protest the unaccounted-for killing of a poor and unarmed Black man in public.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024
Upon being captured, the prisoners were shot after being made to lie on the ground unarmed, said the report.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
Responding to these allegations, the chief minister of the Punjab region, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, said police deployed to stop the protesters were unarmed, and in turn accused the marchers of wielding shotguns, knives and teargas shells.
—Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News, 25 Nov. 2024
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unarmed
adjective
un·armed
ˌən-ˈärmd 
ˈən-
: not armed or armored
unarmed civilians
also
: not using or involving a weapon
unarmed robbery
Medical Definition
unarmed
adjective
un·armed
ˌən-ˈärmd
: having no arms or armlike projections
an unarmed tapeworm
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