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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Alas responded with a volley of gunfire that struck the armored vehicle and ran away before officers returned fire.
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Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
He was charged in 2002 with being the getaway driver for two gunmen who killed a Brinks armored car driver, Dena Monique Daniels, during a holdup that year in Berkeley.
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The chopper flew across New York harbor and landed at a Manhattan heliport, where Maduro, limping, was loaded into an armored vehicle.
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Maduro was trasnported Monday morning from MDC Broooklyn via helicopter and armored car to court.
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Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
He was charged in 2002 with being the getaway driver for two gunmen who killed a Brinks armored car driver, Dena Monique Daniels, during a holdup that year in Berkeley.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
The chopper flew across New York harbor and landed at a Manhattan heliport, where Maduro, limping, was loaded into an armored vehicle.
—Michael R. Sisak, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
Maduro was trasnported Monday morning from MDC Broooklyn via helicopter and armored car to court.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
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“Armored.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/armored. Accessed 18 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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