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armoring

armoring is the present participle and gerund of armor.

armoring is the alternative form of armouring.

Meaning of armor

Verb

armor (third-person singular simple present armors, present participle armoring, simple past and past participle armored)

  1. (US, transitive) To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.
  2. (US, transitive) To provide something with an analogous form of protection.

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Meaning of armouring

Noun

armouring (countable and uncountable, plural armourings)

  1. Armour or shielding.

Forms of armoring

pluralarmorings

Questions about armoring

What is armoring the present participle and gerund of?
Armoring is the present participle and gerund of armor.

Words near armoring in the dictionary

  1. Armorican
  2. Armorican Massif
  3. Armoricans
  4. armoried
  5. armories
  6. armoring
  7. armorings
  8. armorist
  9. armorists
  10. armorless
  11. armorlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: armoring (page history and authors); armor (page history and authors); armouring (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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