unarmed

«unarmed» in Mova's school dictionary: Not carrying a weapon — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (unarmed)

meaning for a pupil

1) Not carrying a weapon. tree →

2) Without the use of weapons: «unarmed combat». tree →

sense in the lessons

In news and history, unarmed people are those who cannot fight back, so attacking them is especially wrong. In the police in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand, most officers are unarmed (they do not carry guns). In stories, a hero facing a monster unarmed is in danger. In The Wind in the Willows, Mole goes into the Wild Wood alone and unarmed, and Ratty comes after him with pistols and a cudgel.

examples

• Most British police officers are unarmed. tree →
• Mole went into the Wild Wood alone and unarmed. tree →
• The soldiers did not shoot at the unarmed crowd. tree →
• Judo is a kind of unarmed self-defence. tree →
• The knight stood unarmed before the dragon. tree →
• The prisoners were unarmed. tree →
• "Ay," said the tinker, "hang him that would fight a man unarmed." tree →

note

Prefix un- = not: un + armed. Opposite: armed. Do not confuse with «disarmed» (had weapons taken away; or charmed).

In the corpora

• «And he—he was alone, and unarmed, and far from any help; and the night was closing in.»
• Mole and Badger were sitting by the fire, unarmed and taken by surprise; there were hundreds against two.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «unarmed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.