gunned

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of gun.

   He gunned the motorcycle and shot forward into traffic.

   The outlaw was gunned down in the street at high noon.

   Note

   The doubled n follows the usual pattern for short verbs ending in a single vowel and consonant. In the engine sense the verb is transitive and needs an object: she gunned the engine. The hunting and attacking senses lean toward the -ing form instead: went gunning, gunning for a rival. Those senses therefore turn up less often in the past form, while phrasal gunned down is common in the passive.

2. 2
   adjective

   Equipped or fitted out with guns; carrying guns as armament.

   The newly gunned frigate joined the blockade off the coast.

   Pirates avoided the heavily gunned merchantmen that patrolled the strait.

   Similararmed

   Oppositeunarmed

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