1
a
: equipped or protected with armor
b
: equipped with armored fighting vehicles
an armored division
2
: marked by the use of armor
armored combat
Examples of armored in a Sentence
a ship with an armored hull
Additional armored divisions were deployed to the eastern front.
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The army has purchased 92 T-72B1 tanks and 123 BMP-3 armored personnel carriers from Russia, which equip the armored brigades alongside 81 AMX-30 tanks previously acquired from France.
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Germán Padinger, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
Zhang Chi, an academic at China's National Defense University, said the vessel can simultaneously launch attack helicopters, landing craft, amphibious tanks and armored vehicles.
—Yimou Lee, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
With inexpensive first-person-view drones and loitering munitions now responsible for significant armored losses across multiple conflict zones, even limited visual evidence of adaptation carries strategic weight.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
The Russia-Ukraine War began as a fairly standard 21st-century conventional war, marked by huge armored columns trying to take key cities and military installations, air assaults, close air support, and small arms gunbattles.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2025
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Germán Padinger, CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
Zhang Chi, an academic at China's National Defense University, said the vessel can simultaneously launch attack helicopters, landing craft, amphibious tanks and armored vehicles.
—Yimou Lee, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
With inexpensive first-person-view drones and loitering munitions now responsible for significant armored losses across multiple conflict zones, even limited visual evidence of adaptation carries strategic weight.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
The Russia-Ukraine War began as a fairly standard 21st-century conventional war, marked by huge armored columns trying to take key cities and military installations, air assaults, close air support, and small arms gunbattles.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2025
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“Armored.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/armored. Accessed 3 Jan. 2026.
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armored
adjective
ar·mored
ˈär-mərd 
1
: protected by armor
an armored car
armored reptiles
2
: supplied with armored equipment
an armored force
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