Explore Rearm through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like arm or fortify. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Rearm meaning
- To replace or restore the weapons or arms of a previously defeated, or disarmed army, country, person or other body.
- To arm, or prepare for use, again.
Using Rearm
- The main meaning on this page is: To replace or restore the weapons or arms of a previously defeated, or disarmed army, country, person or other body. | To arm, or prepare for use, again.
- Useful related words include: arm, re-arm, build up, fortify.
- In the example corpus, rearm often appears in combinations such as: to rearm, rearm and, and rearm.
Context around Rearm
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rearm
- In this selection, "rearm" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fast, country, must, via, times and hitler stand out and add context to how "rearm" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include able to rearm and able to rearm and regroup. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rearm" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rearm
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The lesson – and necessity – was to resist and rearm. (9 words)
Europe warned to ‘rearm’ and ‘prepare for war’ as Russian. (10 words)
The idea is forming that they can just hit pause while they reconstruct (and rearm). (15 words)
Assuming the ships can sail close enough to reach shore targets -- a big assumption considering the vessels’ deep drafts -- they could exhaust their magazines in one hour of steady firing, at which point they would need to rearm. (38 words)
The decision to build the Maginot Line in 1929 was a tacit French admission that without the Rhineland as collateral Germany was soon going to rearm, and that the terms of Part V had a limited lifespan. (37 words)
Israel has demanded its forces be allowed to engage in "active enforcement" to make sure Hezbollah doesn't rearm and rebuild its military infrastructure close to the border, Axios reported, citing an Israeli official. (34 words)
Supposing I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming and we must rearm, does anybody think that this pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry at that moment! (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
The idea is forming that they can just hit pause while they reconstruct (and rearm).
Ukraine, in the meantime, needed time to regroup and rearm while it waited for the delivery of Western weapons.
Biden initially stood with Netanyahu as his strongest backer, supporting his war aims of destroying Hamas and arguing that a ceasefire would merely give the group a chance to rearm and reorganize.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, speaking to IDF forces in Rafah on Thursday, said that their operation there was about making sure "the faucet to Hamas is closed" from being able to rearm.
Europe warned to ‘rearm’ and ‘prepare for war’ as Russian.
He alleged that the occupation of the corridor was vital to ensuring Hamas could not rearm via tunnels, and would “cut off the oxygen” to the Palestinian resistance group.
Israel has demanded its forces be allowed to engage in "active enforcement" to make sure Hezbollah doesn't rearm and rebuild its military infrastructure close to the border, Axios reported, citing an Israeli official.
The lesson – and necessity – was to resist and rearm.
The unilateral IDF withdrawal from Gaza would result in Hamas essentially winning the war, as they would be able to rearm and regroup.
Assuming the ships can sail close enough to reach shore targets -- a big assumption considering the vessels’ deep drafts -- they could exhaust their magazines in one hour of steady firing, at which point they would need to rearm.
Fast rearm times and fast air speeds meant that Viggens would be able to have an effect on the battlefield outsize to their number in service.
He insisted that only Russia can help his country rearm its armed forces and confront new security challenges in the aftermath of the Karabakh war.
Mr Haftar could be using the peace talks to consolidate gains and buy time to rearm after his recent taking of the central Libyan city of Sirte.
Appalling, too, is the fact that America’s power elite were profiting from financing and helping to rearm Hitler’s war machine after it was depleted by WWI.
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany is being told by its leaders and by foreign politicians to rearm, assert itself, and become a world power.
Hermann Göring had consistently stated that the task of the Four Year Plan was to rearm Germany for total war.
In 1859, the armies of Europe (including those that had recently adopted gun-howitzers) began to rearm field batteries with rifled field guns.
James, p. 353 Return from exile Churchill later sought to portray himself as an isolated voice warning of the need to rearm against Germany.
Supposing I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming and we must rearm, does anybody think that this pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry at that moment!
The decision to build the Maginot Line in 1929 was a tacit French admission that without the Rhineland as collateral Germany was soon going to rearm, and that the terms of Part V had a limited lifespan.
Common combinations with rearm
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to rearm 15×
- rearm and 5×
- and rearm 4×