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WEAPONIZE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they weaponize ... he / she / it weaponizes
Past simple: weaponized
-ing form: weaponizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon
Example:
Will modern physicists weaponize String Theory?
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "weaponize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
weapon (any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting)