To take it back unaided would mean abandoning the dead Mutes and their weapons.

The remaining soldiers broke and ran, abandoning their weapons.

The Japanese defenders were overwhelmed and many of them abandoned their weapons as they fled.

When he had finished, they abandoned their weapons in the desert and turned back to return to Kroaxia.

They also had to abandon their weapons and gatherings were banned.

British and Greek troops had been forced to abandon all their heavy weapons.

Whatever he might become, he was still the Warrior and no-one had the power to tell him to abandon his weapons.

Moments after the leaders took the plunge, the whole band was in the water, some abandoning their weapons and helmets.

And North Korea would see no reason to abandon its weapons.

Some of them didn't abandon their weapons, though they all "abandoned the field," in the old phrase from elitist history books.