The word equipped is from the verb equip, which traces its origins first to the Middle French word équiper, meaning "to fit out." From there it can be traced to the Old French word esquiper meaning "to fit out a ship." Today you can equip things other than ships.
How do you use equip in a sentence?
Equip sentence example
- I shall not be able to equip him. ...
- Night and day he laboured to levy armies and equip fleets. ...
- In order that international arbitration may do its perfect work, it is not enough to set up a standing tribunal, whether at the Hague or elsewhere, and to equip it with elaborate rules of procedure.
What does equip equipped mean?
to furnish or provide with whatever is needed for use or for any undertaking; fit out, as a ship or army: They spent several thousand dollars to equip their boat. to dress; array: He equipped himself in all his finery.
