Counterarm

Quick meaning: Counterarm is a verb meaning To arm oneself in order to match the level of weaponry held by an opponent.

Meaning

To arm oneself in order to match the level of weaponry held by an opponent.

More Meanings

1. A weapon that is acquired in order to counter one held by an opponent.
2. A weighted arm, or an arm that holds a weight, which acts as a counterbalance.
3. (astronomy) A galactic arm on the far side of a galaxy that is colliding with another galaxy.

Example Sentences

Balancing this at the other end of the teeterboard was a counterarm.

The submarine is the dominating weapon today. Undersea boats spell a nameless, historical terror because no effective counterarm has been perfected.

Of course, we want them in a forum, not a forum of threat and counterthreat, arm and counterarm, but in the forum of discussion, and I suggest we put it there.

If those years are devoted to an accelerated arms race, we might very well miss the big chance while still building ever- increasing piles of arms and counterarms.

Word Forms

• counterarms
• counterarming
• counterarmed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include embattle, forearm, enarm, beweapon, counterbrace, counterweight.

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