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ARMLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does armless mean?
• ARMLESS (adjective)
The adjective ARMLESS has 1 sense:
1. having no arms
Familiarity information: ARMLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having no arms
Context example:
the armless Venus de Milo
Antonym:
armed (having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination)
Context examples
A chorus of boisterous laughter came from the other rocks, and Dorothy saw hundreds of the armless Hammer-Heads upon the hillside, one behind every rock.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
“W’y ’as all this come on me? It mykes me fair sick, it does, an’ I try so ’ard to go through life ’armless an’ ’urtin’ nobody.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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