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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unarmed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unarmed combat (=without weapons)
▪ They were trained in the techniques of unarmed combat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
civilian
▪ No driver wanted to plough heedlessly into a crowd of unarmed civilians.
▪ Countless unarmed civilians fleeing to the borders were killed by helicopter gunships.
combat
▪ Though Wallace had no training in unarmed combat, the impression remained that he knew all about karate.
▪ Both men, I am assured by your embassy, are trained with weapons and in unarmed combat.
▪ In the West the closed fist is considered almost the only effective weapon to be used in unarmed combat.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It was later discovered that the hijacker was unarmed.
▪ Soldiers killed 17 unarmed civilians.
▪ The army allegedly shot dead over 300 unarmed civilians.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Albújar was reported to have been alone and unarmed at the time of the attack.
▪ Each of these farms has only about fifty inmates, under very light surveillance by unarmed staff.
▪ He will face his next opponent unarmed.
▪ Military sources said the unarmed plane split off from another MiG during a training flight east of the Golan Heights.
▪ Now just kick the tyres, light the fires and leap off unarmed into battle.
▪ They said that he had been ambushed while unarmed and slain by a thrust in the back.
▪ Though Wallace had no training in unarmed combat, the impression remained that he knew all about karate.
▪ Where did it say I couldn't go unarmed if I wanted to?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unarmed

Unarmed \Un*armed"\, a. [Pref. un- not + armed.]

  1. Not armed or armored; having no arms or weapons.

  2. (Nat. Hist.) Having no hard and sharp projections, as spines, prickles, spurs, claws, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unarmed

c.1300, "with armor removed," from un- (1) "not" + armed, or else past participle adjective from unarm "strip of armor" (c.1300), from un- (2) "opposite of" + arm (v.). Meaning "not fitted to attack, weaponless" is from late 14c.

Wiktionary
unarmed

a. 1 defenceless and lacking weapons or armour 2 not carrying arms 3 (context biology English) not having thorns or claws etc.

WordNet
unarmed
  1. adj. (used of persons or the military) not having or using arms; "went alone and unarmed"; "unarmed peasants were shot down"; "unarmed vehicles" [ant: armed]

  2. used of plants or animals; without barbs or stings [ant: armed]

Usage examples of "unarmed".

International Law exempting unarmed fishing vessels from capture was applicable in the absence of any treaty provision, or other public act of the Government in relation to the subject.

Oltenian units anyway, and the sole unarmed member of a combat patrol would be an even more certain choice for a Molt with the leisure to pick his target.

An adept in all manly exercises and especially in horsemanship, he sometimes used to ride without stopping from Rome to Naples, a distance of forty-one leagues, passing through the forest of San Germano and the Pontine marshes heedless of brigands, although he might be alone and unarmed save for his sword and dagger.

Conan faced them, not a naked man roused mazed and unarmed out of deep sleep to be butchered like a sheep, but a barbarian wide-awake and at bay, partly armored, and with his long sword in his hand.

Shridharani believes that the Hindese were willing to accept Satyagraha first because, unarmed under British law, no other means were available to them, and then because they were predisposed to the method because of the Hindu philosophy of non-violence and the mystic belief that truth will triumph eventually since it is a force greater than the physical.

Donny Lembruck, who was unarmed, had squenched down into the smallest possible target on the floor beside the stern seat.

They were, by all reports, an unarmed, unregimented collection of old men, women and children.

A mass of men was coming down the road, unarmed, unspiked, no rifles visible: prisoners.

Also taught was unarmed self defense-something Jessica had urged her husband to learn after a savage attack on the CBS anchorman Dan Rather on a New York street in 1986.

The Corsairs had lit lanterns up and down the length of the galleot shortly before the collision, so that Spaniards running up from belowdecks, rubbing sleep out of their eyes, would be presented with the reassuring sight of oarsmen who were still safely in chains, and free crew members who were unarmed and disorganized.

Rama saw a group of Nagas converge, hissing, on an unarmed brahmin mother and her two shaven-headed sons.

He is the author of the bestseller Downsize This: Random Threats from an Unarmed American, and coauthor with Kathleen Glynn of Adventures in a TV Nation.

Security Council resolution which ended the conflict, the United States was allowed to place unarmed military observers at Cydonia Base as a token peacekeeping force to prevent farther shipments of Russian munitions to the base.

As a member of that minority of Americans who are unarmed, I have to find another way to combat the downsizing tide that seems to be rising against us.

Karate, judo, boxing, jiujitsu, wrestling-not one of the formal schools of unarmed combat prepares a man for the special problem of suddenly catching a sack of bricks that has fallen out of a third story window.