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Armed vs Charged - What's the difference?

armed | charged |

As verbs the difference between armed and charged

is that armed is past tense of arm while charged is past tense of charge.

As an adjective armed

is equipped, especially with a weapon.

armed

English

Etymology 1

See the verb .

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (sometimes, in combination) Equipped, especially with a weapon.
    • nuclear-armed
  • (of a weapon) Prepared for use; loaded.
  • (obsolete) Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency.
  • * De Foe
    • a distemper eminently armed from heaven
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (arm)

    • Etymology 2

    .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (chiefly, in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.
  • Coloured in a different tincture from the beast or bird itself.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Anagrams

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    charged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (charge)
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}