ARMORED Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

Definition of armored

as in shielded

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verb

past tense of armor

as in encapsulated

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Recent Examples of armored

Adjective

Germany sent an armored brigade of 5,000 soldiers to Lithuania to shore up NATO’s eastern flank, for example, marking the first permanent overseas deployment of German forces since World War II. — Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2026 Other military manufacturers around the Charlotte region INKAS isn’t the only company manufacturing armored vehicles in the Charlotte area. — Charlotte Observer, 6 July 2026 Deploying nets and traps from armored breakwalls and along shoreline boulders, their efforts weren't successful in 2024. — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 3 July 2026 The White House is an active construction site, with cement trucks going through the same gates typically used by the president’s armored limousine. — Matt Viser, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for armored

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Adjective

The titular hero was born on the doomed alien world of Krypton, and grew up in a shielded city that managed to survive the planet’s initial destruction.

— David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
The pipe welding certificate program will focus on gas tungsten arc welding, gas metal arc welding and shielded metal arc welding, according to the ECC website.

— Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026

Definition of shielded

Verb

All asbestos-containing materials will be removed or encapsulated, and any remaining asbestos material will be monitored when the buildings reopen, according to Clark.

— Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026
Ada’s overlapping cycles of initiation and desperation are intensely dramatic, but the movie’s hectic pace leaves each of them merely encapsulated in brief onscreen action or a few lines of dialogue, left undeveloped.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 June 2026

Definition of encapsulated

Verb

Recent ideas suggest that little red dots could be black holes cocooned in thick gas, possibly representing a completely new type of object called a black hole star, in which the tight shroud of gas emits light like a stellar atmosphere.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2026
Occupiers of apartments and houses had grown used to all these sounds, which, far from disturbing their sleep, cocooned it.

— Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026

Definition of cocooned

Adjective

For example, Paris has an aesthetic aversion to window units and rooftop HVAC systems, which helps explain why installing air-conditioning typically requires special permission from authorities, especially in protected or historic areas.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
Most of them encrypted files in non-protected folders, anywhere from a handful to 24,000.

— Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 25 June 2026

Definition of protected

Verb

While no official cause of death has been released and no charges have been made in Wells’ case, his death sparked racial tensions and widespread scrutiny after photos showed Wells surrounded by White friends while on the trip.

— Holly Yan, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
Like its rooms, all three restaurants face the ocean; don’t miss dinner at the Ocean Grill, where you’ll be surrounded by three walls of 30-foot-tall floor-to-ceiling windows.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026

Definition of surrounded

Adjective

Every additional defended point becomes a resource allocation problem for Moscow.

— David A. Deptula, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Speaking at Fortune’s Workforce Innovation Summit on Tuesday, the 31-year-old defended sweeping workforce cuts at Bolt—including a recent layoff affecting roughly 30% of employees—as well as his decision to eliminate the company’s HR team.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 19 May 2026

Definition of defended

Verb

Other area Costco stores are ringed around the suburbs, ten-plus miles from the urban core.

— Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026
Even Kerameikos, the ancient necropolis Thucydides called the city’s most beautiful quarter, comes ringed not with tour buses but with the kind of neighborhood tables—Osteria Mamma, Proveleggios—that locals keep to themselves.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026

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