Meanings
present singular third person stealthens · participle present stealthening · participle past stealthened · past stealthened
- raretransitiveTo add stealth to; make stealthy
It also recalls the Biblical story of David and Goliath when we hear of child-heroes destroying giant Soviet tanks with primitive weapons, their arms stealthened by righteousness of their cause.
1875, Congressional Record, volume 3, part 151 more example
Islamic volunteer warriors, stealthened by their experience in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Chechnya, came to the assistance of the insurgents during the Syrian civil war to balance Iranian, Russian, and Lebanese Hezbollah assistance to the Al-Assad government […]
2014, Astrid B. Boening, The Arab Spring
Origin
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