rearm
verb
re·arm
(ˌ)rē-ˈärm 
rearmed; rearming; rearms
: to arm (a nation, a military force, etc.) again with new or better weapons
: to become armed again
Examples of rearm in a Sentence
The treaty forbids the country to rearm.
Another country was rearming their enemies.
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World & Nation After hostage killings, can the Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks be revived?
Sept. 3, 2024
Speaking to foreign journalists, Netanyahu repeated his stance that Israel must maintain its hold on the border to prevent Hamas from rearming by smuggling weapons into Gaza.
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Josef Federman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
Each side feared the other would use the initial pause to rearm and return to battle.
—David Ignatius, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
The alliance is walking a tightrope of rearming and increasing military spending while avoiding provoking Moscow and escalating what is already the deadliest war on European soil in decades.
—Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 26 June 2024
In 2021, under Boris Johnson, the U.K. stopped reducing its weapons stockpile and became the world’s only nuclear-armed country apart from China to openly rearm—with a plan to add up to eighty warheads, an increase of some forty per cent, by the mid-twenty-twenties.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 June 2024
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Josef Federman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
Each side feared the other would use the initial pause to rearm and return to battle.
—David Ignatius, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
The alliance is walking a tightrope of rearming and increasing military spending while avoiding provoking Moscow and escalating what is already the deadliest war on European soil in decades.
—Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 26 June 2024
In 2021, under Boris Johnson, the U.K. stopped reducing its weapons stockpile and became the world’s only nuclear-armed country apart from China to openly rearm—with a plan to add up to eighty warheads, an increase of some forty per cent, by the mid-twenty-twenties.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 June 2024
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“Rearm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rearm. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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