weapon: [OE] Weapon comes from a prehistoric Germanic *w?pnam, a source it shares with German waffe, Dutch wapen, Swedish vapen, and Danish vaaben. But of the ancestry of the Germanic form nothing certain is known.
weapon (n.)
Old English w?pen "instrument of fighting and defense, sword," also "penis," from Proto-Germanic *w?pnan (cognates: Old Saxon wapan, Old Norse vapn, Danish vaaben, Old Frisian wepin, Middle Dutch wapen, Old High German wafan, German Waffe "weapon"), from *webno-m, of unknown origin with no cognates outside Germanic.
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1. They've stooped to using any and every weapon at their disposal.
他們已經(jīng)無(wú)恥到把能用的武器都用上了。
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2. The police nicked me for carrying an offensive weapon.
警察以攜帶攻擊性武器為由逮捕了我。
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3. The report outlined possible uses for the new weapon.
該報(bào)告概述了這種新式武器的可能用途。
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4. Lewis was tried for unlawfully and dangerously discharging a weapon.
劉易斯因非法和不安全的開槍而受到了審判。
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5. Enriched uranium is a key component of a nuclear weapon.
