Word Finder - weapon

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An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.

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The club that is now mostly used for golf was once a common weapon.

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An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.

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Money is the main weapon of modern oligarchs.

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A tool of any kind.

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Choose your weapon.

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An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.

It wasn't a weapon; it was a key.

He reached for the weapon with a shaking hand.

Dusty released her, strapped in the last weapon, and looked around.

No human weapon can hurt me.

He carried close to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly.

The ten-year-old child she adopted and turned into a killer started as a weapon with no more attachment to her than a sword or dagger.

She knew that the sole weapon against him was prayer, and she tried to pray.

As the years passed, their relationship transitioned from master and weapon into something different.

He thought too of the possibility (which he feared most of all) that Napoleon might fight him with his own weapon and remain in Moscow awaiting him.

She whipped around, weapon pointed at Xander as he appeared through the doorway.

Brady muttered a curse, reached for his laser weapon, and fired at an angle at the ceiling.

Any hope he'd had of finding something—anything!—to use as a weapon was dashed as he looked around the sparsely decorated room.

Yully lowered the weapon slowly.

She replaced her weapon and crossed to him, unwilling to show fear.

The second put his weapon away and darted off down another hallway.

Their ways had to part, because there was no place for her weapon in a civilized society.

He affixed the paper to his breast, and unsheathing a sword-stick fell upon the weapon, which pierced his heart, on the Toth of November 1793.

Drawing a weapon, he walked through the hall and into a corridor.

She had a weapon capable of destroying the immortal realm but had chosen not to unleash Xander completely, knowing what might happen if she did.

On the other hand, if he wanted to harm her, he might snatch the stick from her and use it as a weapon against her.

The Others are acquiring a weapon, but … it didn't seem quite right.

Gabriel whipped around at the voice, lowering the weapon that emerged instinctively at the sound of a stranger in his home.

Jack waited for her by the door, and she tucked the weapon Mrs. Watson gave her into one cargo pocket.

Xander understood how dangerous of a weapon he was; Eden exploited it once before.

Even when, on the invention of gunpowder and firearms, the bow had fallen into disuse as a weapon of war, the prohibition was continued.

She glanced around for some kind of weapon as they walked, and soon came up with a walking stick.

I only have one weapon that takes that ammo, so you can take it all.

He slung his weapon over his shoulder as they walked deeper into the underground city.

Fortunately, no human-made weapon was able to hurt him.

His low growl made Jenn shift and stretch a hand to the small of her back, where she probably had at least one weapon stashed.

The weapon hadn't been cleaned since it was last fired, but all six chambers contained bullets.

The characteristic weapon of the Australian is the boomerang.

The important results obtained showed that a weapon of great power had been provided for assisting naval warfare.

Richard Hooker, again with traces of Aquinas, uses the conception as a weapon against Puritanism, with its aggressive positivism of scriptural precept.

Their chief weapon is the blow-pipe, in the use of which they are adepts.

There was a practical motive for using this weapon.

Roundhead was also used during the Civil War as the name of a weapon.

His immense learning served him rather as a storehouse of illustrations, or as an armoury out of which he could choose the fittest weapon for discomfiting on opponent, than as a quarry furnishing him with material for building up a completely designed and enduring edifice of systematized truth.

It was hunted in England and in Europe on foot and on horseback with dogs, while the weapon of attack was always the spear.

The weapon is not shown.

The Others are acquiring a weapon, but … it didn't seem quite right.

But it then occurred to him for the first time that he certainly could not carry the weapon in his hand through the streets.

As you start to reload, switch to a different weapon.

Beginning with the prince's father ransacking a Maharaja's castle, the story quickly develops and leaves the prince alone to retrieve the mystical Dagger of Time, a sand-filled weapon rumored to have the ability to rewind time.

Once that's done, forensics can discover who the murderer is and what weapon they used.

Betsy hesitated, but complied when Grasso feigned a slice with his weapon.

I can hardly walk let alone lift a weapon.

In 1198, on the election of Enrico Dandolo, the aristocracy carried their policy one step farther, and by the promissione ducale, or coronation oath, which every doge was required to swear, they acquired a powerful weapon for the suppression of all that remained of ancient ducal authority.

With the end of the Persian Wars, the original object of ostracism was removed, but it continued in use for forty years and was revived in 417 B.C. It now became a mere party weapon and the farcical result of its use in 417 in the case of Hyperbolus led to its abolition either at once, or, as Lugebil seeks to prove, in the archonship of Euclides (403 B.C.).

Within the town are situated the smelting-works, the mint, and a Government weapon factory.