1
: not armed or armored
unarmed civilians
also
: not using or involving a weapon
unarmed robbery
2
: having no hard and sharp projections (such as spines, spurs, or claws)
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The victim was able to tell the dispatcher she was being held by an unarmed man.
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Pilar Arias, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2024
Killing an unarmed man in cold blood isn’t like killing out of necessity.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The teenager’s killing and the hundreds of days of sustained protests that followed helped strengthen the Black Lives Matter movement and brought the issue of police use of force against unarmed Black Americans to the forefront of US policy and politics.
—Emma Tucker, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024
However, prosecutors argued that Marks instigated the road rage and eye-witness accounts consistently stated that the unarmed Stamates never entered the car.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2024
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Pilar Arias, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2024
Killing an unarmed man in cold blood isn’t like killing out of necessity.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The teenager’s killing and the hundreds of days of sustained protests that followed helped strengthen the Black Lives Matter movement and brought the issue of police use of force against unarmed Black Americans to the forefront of US policy and politics.
—Emma Tucker, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024
However, prosecutors argued that Marks instigated the road rage and eye-witness accounts consistently stated that the unarmed Stamates never entered the car.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2024
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unarmed
adjective
un·armed
ˌən-ˈärmd 
ˈən-
: not armed or armored
unarmed civilians
also
: not using or involving a weapon
unarmed robbery
Medical Definition
unarmed
adjective
un·armed
ˌən-ˈärmd
: having no arms or armlike projections
an unarmed tapeworm
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