ARMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arming mean? 

• ARMING (noun)
  The noun ARMING has 1 sense:

1. the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war

  Familiarity information: ARMING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

armament; arming; equipping

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)

 Context examples 

Arming activated T cells with this bispecific antibody may significantly increase T cell secretion of anti-tumor associated cytokines such as IL2, RANTES, IFN-gamma, and TNF-alpha.

(EGFRBi-Armed Autologous T Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

I know that the apprehension of being forced to quit Mansfield will for a time be arming you against him.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)