weaponless en · ADJ
Etymology
From Middle English wepenles, from Old English wǣpenlēas, from Proto-Germanic *wēpnalausaz, equivalent to weapon + -less. Cognate with Saterland Frisian woapenloos (“weaponless”), Dutch wapenloos (“weaponless”), German waffenlos (“weaponless”), Danish våbenløs (“weaponless”), Swedish vapenlös (“weaponless”), Icelandic vopnlaus (“weaponless”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Lacking a weapon.
Summerlee was weaponless, but I was emptying my magazine as quick as I could fire, and on the further flank we heard the continuous cracking of our companion's rifles.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
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Translations (9)
it disarmato (lacking a weapon) · de waffenlos (lacking a weapon) · hi निहत्था (lacking a weapon) · enm wepenles (lacking a weapon) · es sin armas (lacking a weapon) · pl bezorężny (lacking a weapon) · sv vapenlös (lacking a weapon) · pl nieuzbrojony (lacking a weapon) · hi शस्त्रहीन (lacking a weapon)