weapon

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see also FIGHT, WAR
- an object that is used for fighting or killing people: weapon
- weapons used in war: arms (noun plural)
arms control/reduction
- equipped with arms: armed
heavily armed ◎ armed forces ◎ an armed man
- weapons and military equipment: armaments (noun plural)
- weapons that use the energy produced by splitting an atom: nuclear weapons, nuclear arms
- weapons that use harmful chemicals to damage or destroy people or things: chemical weapons
- weapons that use living things to injure or kill people: biological weapons
- weapons that are not nuclear, chemical or biological: conventional weapons
※—† guns and bombs
- a weapon that is used for shooting: gun
- a container that is filled with material that will explode if you throw it, drop it, etc: bomb
- a powerful exploding weapon that can travel long distances through the air: missile
- the bullets, bombs, etc that people need when they use a weapon: ammunition (noun U)
※ more on bombs and guns BOMB, GUN
※—† knives
- to hold a knife so that it is facing sb: point a knife at sb
He pointed the knife right at me and I dropped my bag.
- to push a knife hard and deep into sb/sth: stab sb/sth; noun: stab
She came up behind him and stabbed him in the back. ◎ a stab wound
※—† gas
- gas that hurts your eyes: tear gas (noun U)
The police used tear gas to control the crowd.
- a poisonous gas that affects the nerves: nerve gas (noun U)
- if you want to protect yourself from poisonous gas, you can wear a gas mask
- to kill or injure somebody with gas: gas sb
He was gassed in the First World War.
※—† getting or reducing weapons
- to prepare a person or country to fight by supplying weapons: arm (yourself/sb/sth)
- to take weapons away from sb: disarm sb
- (used about a country) to reduce the number of weapons that it has: disarm; noun (U): disarmament
nuclear disarmament
- (used about a country) to increase, once again, the number of weapons that it has: rearm; noun (U): rearmament
- a situation during peacetime where countries try to have as many weapons as their enemies: arms race
- a person or company that makes weapons: arms manufacturer
- a person or company that sells weapons: arms dealer

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  artillery, arm, weapon system