DEMILITARIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does demilitarize mean? 

• DEMILITARIZE (verb)
  The verb DEMILITARIZE has 2 senses:

1. do away with the military organization and potential of

2. remove offensive capability from

  Familiarity information: DEMILITARIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMILITARIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they demilitarize    ... he / she / it demilitarizes   
Past simple: demilitarized   
Past participle: demilitarized   
-ing form: demilitarizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Do away with the military organization and potential of

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

demilitarise; demilitarize

Hypernyms (to "demilitarize" is one way to...):

disarm; unarm (take away the weapons from; render harmless)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "demilitarize"):

neutralise; neutralize (make incapable of military action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

militarize (lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove offensive capability from

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

demilitarise; demilitarize; disarm

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody