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Definition of "lightly-armed" [lightly-armed]

  • Armed with light weapons (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "lightly-armed" in a sentence
  • "In the end, if history is any guide, many of these weapons will become the overpriced means of killing lightly-armed men, along with unarmed men, women, and children in one poverty-stricken country or another in the decades to come."
  • "It's awfully hard for the world's greatest power to admit its high-tech military forces are being beaten in Afghanistan by a bunch of lightly-armed mountain tribesmen that we dismiss as "terrorists.""
  • "Pro-Gadhafi forces have been bombarding the town and claimed to have seized it Tuesday after skirmishes with the mostly young and lightly-armed rebels."
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