WEAPONIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weaponize mean? 

• WEAPONIZE (verb)
  The verb WEAPONIZE has 1 sense:

1. make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon

  Familiarity information: WEAPONIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEAPONIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they weaponize    ... he / she / it weaponizes   
Past simple: weaponized   
Past participle: weaponized   
-ing form: weaponizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Will modern physicists weaponize String Theory?

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)