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ARMING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("arming" is a kind of...):
militarisation; militarization; mobilisation; mobilization (act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arming"):
outfitting (the act of renovating and fitting out a ship)
rearmament (the act of arming again)
Antonym:
disarming (act of reducing or depriving of arms)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb arm
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