"weaponize" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈwɛpənaɪz/ Forms: weaponizes [present, singular, third-person], weaponizing [participle, present], weaponized [participle, past], weaponized [past]
Etymology: weapon + -ize Etymology templates: {{suf|en|weapon|ize}} weapon + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} weaponize (third-person singular simple present weaponizes, present participle weaponizing, simple past and past participle weaponized)
  1. (transitive) To make into a weapon. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Weapons Translations (make into a weapon): tehdä ase [with-elative] (Finnish), käyttää aseena [with-partitive] (Finnish), aseellistaa (Finnish), zu einer Waffe machen (German), in eine Waffe verwandeln (German), als Waffe verwenden (German), als Waffe benutzen (German), fegyverként használ (Hungarian), utilizzare come arma (Italian), trasformare in arma (Italian), 무기화(武器化)하다 (mugihwahada) (Korean), использовать как оружие (ispolʹzovatʹ kak oružije) (Russian), upotrijebiti kao oružje [perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), pretvoriti u oružje [perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), göra till ett vapen (Swedish), vapenisera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-weaponize-en-verb-lnPO5PM1 Disambiguation of Weapons: 65 35 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 86 14 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 71 29 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 72 28 Disambiguation of 'make into a weapon': 92 8
  2. (transitive) To make more effective as a weapon. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-weaponize-en-verb-X5Bmqvho
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: weaponise (english: non-Oxford British English) Derived forms: weaponizable Related terms: beweapon, weaponization

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