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WEAPONLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does weaponless mean?
• WEAPONLESS (adjective)
The adjective WEAPONLESS has 1 sense:
1. without a weapon
Familiarity information: WEAPONLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without a weapon
Similar:
unarmed ((used of persons or the military) not having or using arms)
Context examples
Summerlee was weaponless, but I was emptying my magazine as quick as I could fire, and on the further flank we heard the continuous cracking of our companion's rifles.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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