heavily armed

idiom

: carrying many dangerous weapons
a group of heavily armed men

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Zambrano-Pacheco is the same man caught on camera in a viral video showing heavily armed men kicking down an apartment door at an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, last summer. Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 1 Feb. 2025 The news agency also showed heavily armed men flanked by armored vehicles shooting what appeared to be tear gas into the the streets. NBC News, 30 Jan. 2025 Now for many Lebanese enduring a punishing war with Israel, Hezbollah’s unique status as a heavily armed state-within-a-state is increasingly a problem. Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov. 2024 Eyewitness footage shared by local media outlets showed heavily armed police units forming barricades near the Paso del Norte International Bridge, a major point of entry connecting El Paso to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for heavily armed 

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“Heavily armed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavily%20armed. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.

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