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armor

noun as in protective covering, often made of metal

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As the mobs smashed through Capitol police barricades, broke doors and windows and charged into the Capitol with body armor and weapons, many of us hid behind chairs and under desks or barricaded ourselves in offices.

As the mob smashed through Capitol Police barricades, broke doors and windows, and charged into the Capitol with body armor and weapons, many of us hid behind chairs and under desks or barricaded ourselves in offices.

The team also touched up every “character, enemy, armor, gun, casual outfit” through “Mass Effect 1 and 2,” and “many” in the third entry.

Some beetles wear armor made of their own poop to avoid getting eaten.

Arthropods instead put their tough stuff on the outside where it acts as a suit of armor, Edgecombe says.

Another member of the plot took care of the ammo along with black uniforms, night-vision equipment, and body armor.

Unlike all the trailers and screen shots for the movie, in the Bible Moses never holds a sword or wears armor.

And he would especially like American FGM-148 Javelins, man-portable anti-tank missiles to hit at Russian armor.

My finger burned when it touched the blossom of lead embedded in the ceramic armor.

This would seem reasonable, since in that direction lay the only territory open enough for swift attack by armor.

The governor made a strong thrust at him, which almost knocked him down; but showed that he was clad in armor.

What the armor-bearer was for the warlike races of old, such is the tchbukdi for their degenerate descendants.

Absurd as that taffeta dress was for a child of her age, it seemed to her an armor against all disaster.

Edward, prince of Wales (called the black prince from the color of his armor), died, aged 46.

Of course, I couldn't get these people to leave off their armor; they wouldn't do that when they bathed.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to armor, such as: bulletproof vest, shield, defense, guard, hard-shell, and mail.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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