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Pos: Verb (transitive)
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun munition has 3 senses

1.  munition(n = noun.artifact) arms, implements of war, weaponry, weapons system - weapons considered collectively;
is a kind of instrumentality, instrumentation
has parts: arm, weapon, weapon system
has particulars: ammo, ammunition, armament, bomb, defence system, defense system, gunnery, hardware, naval weaponry
Derived form verb munition1

2.  munition(n = noun.artifact) ordnance, ordnance store - military supplies;
is a kind of armament

3.  munition(n = noun.artifact) fortification - defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it;
is a kind of defence, defense, defensive structure
has parts: bulwark, rampart, wall
has particulars: bastion, bunker, dugout, castle, defilade, entrenchment, intrenchment, escarp, escarpment, protective embankment, scarp, fieldwork, lunette, palisade, breastwork, parapet, redoubt, stockade, maginot line, siegfried line


Verb munition has 1 senses

   munition(v = verb.possession) - supply with weapons;
is one way to
arm
Derived form noun munition1
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

munition, n. [F., munition of war, L. munitio a fortifying, fortification, fr. munire to fortify, defend with a wall; cf. moenia walls, murus (for moirus) a wall, and Skr. mi to fix, make firm. Cf. Ammunition.].

1.  Fortification; stronghold. [1913 Webster]
"His place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks." [1913 Webster]

2.  Whatever materials are used in war for defense or for annoying an enemy; ammunition; also, stores and provisions; military stores of all kinds. [1913 Webster]
"The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war." [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

munition, n. & v.
--n. (usu. in pl.) military weapons, ammunition, equipment, and stores.
--v.tr. supply with munitions.

Etymology:
F f. L munitio -onis fortification (as MUNIMENT)


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Materials

N  materials, material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple, adobe, brown stone, chinking, clapboard, daubing, puncheon, shake, shingle, bricks and mortar, metal, stone, clay, brick crockery, compo, composition, concrete, reinforced concrete, cement, wood, ore, timber, materials, supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum, ammunition, contingents, relay, reinforcement, reenforcement, baggage, means, calico, cambric, cashmere, raw, wooden, adobe.


Defense

N  defense, protection, guard, ward, shielding, propugnation, preservation, guardianship, area defense, site defense, self-defense, self-preservation, resistance, safeguard, balistraria, bunker, screen, camouflage, fortification, munition, muniment, trench, foxhole, bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment, kila, dike, dyke, parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment, earth work, field- work, fence, wall dead wall, contravallation, paling, palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar, barrier, barricade, boom, portcullis, chevaux de frise, abatis, abattis, abbatis, vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp, escarp, counter-scarp, glacis, casemate, vallation, vanfos, buttress, abutment, shore, breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin, vauntmure, advance work, horn work, outwork, barbacan, barbican, redoubt, fort-elage, fort-alice, lines, loophole, machicolation, sally port, hold, stronghold, fastness, asylum, keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle, tower of strength, tower of strength, fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath, wooden walls, bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako, bearskin, panoply, truncheon, garrison, picket, piquet, defender, protector, guardian, bodyguard, champion, knight-errant, Paladin, propugner, bulletproof window, hardened site, defending, defensive, mural, armed, armed at all points, armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth, panoplied, iron-plated, ironclad, loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated, defended, proof against, armored, ballproof, bulletproof, hardened, defensively, on the defense, on the defensive, in defense, at bay, pro aris et focis, Int, no surrender!, defense not defiance, Dieu defend le droit, fidei defensor, defender of the faith.


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