Armoring

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The act of adding a protective layer to enhance resilience against damage or attack
2. The process of reinforcing an object or vehicle to improve its resistance to harm and enhance safety
3. The process of covering an object with material to prevent harm or injury

Etymology: The word "armor" is inherited from Latin "arma", meaning weapons or equipment, through the Latin noun "armātūra", which meant equipment or fittings for arming soldiers. That noun passed into Old French as "armeüre" and then into Anglo-Norman, reaching Middle English as "armure" and related spellings. The English word and the French "armure" are doublets, forms of one Latin source that arrived by different routes. The noun meant the gear itself, the metal or leather protection a fighter wore. The verb "armoring" carries that same idea of covering something with protection, so applying armor to a vehicle or a structure is the literal sense the word still preserves. Its ancestry runs back to Latin weapons, not to the older English word for arms.

Synonyms: shielding, protecting, defending, fortifying, encasing

Antonyms: exposing, vulnerabilizing, unprotecting, defenselessness, susceptibility