EGAVE

weapon

About 11.57 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.
    The club that is now mostly used for golf was once a common weapon.
  2. noun An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
    Money is the main weapon of modern oligarchs.
  3. noun A tool of any kind.
    Choose your weapon.
  4. noun An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.
  5. noun A very skilled, competent, or capable person or thing worthy of awe.
  6. noun The human genitals.
  7. verb To equip with a weapon; to arm.

Similar words

artillery arm weapon system missile sidearm pistol firepower weaponry arms handgun

Often followed by

of in to and against was for that is

Word family

weaponed weaponing weapons

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