heavily armed

idiom

: carrying many dangerous weapons
a group of heavily armed men

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With its eye on Hezbollah, Iran’s heavily armed Shiite ally in Lebanon, Israel was wholly unprepared for the devastating ground assault launched from Gaza by Hamas, a Palestinian militant group that was also backed by the Islamic Republic. Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025 What To Know Footage from the scene captured emergency vehicles and heavily armed police stationed along one side of the memorial, a sprawling expanse of grey concrete pillars where the attack occurred. Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025 Another clip showed masses of heavily armed police assembling at the station, after the search for the suspects got underway. Pierre Bairin, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025 The camera keeps tight on Dragan as the heavily armed soldiers approach the compartment containing him, the Muslim man and several other passengers. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for heavily armed

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