weaponize
verb/ˈwɛpənaɪz/
Etymology
Definitions
To make into a weapon.
- Anything can be weaponized. A big enough rock, dropped from a sufficient height, is a very good weapon.
- The writer has to an unusually high degree the gift of being able to coin a telling phrase, though I do not like the verb in the sentence "However unassailable their arguments may be they could not weaponize their strength."
To make more effective as a weapon.
- To weaponize anthrax it is made more distributable, not more virulent.
The neighborhood
- neighborbeweapon
- neighborweaponization
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for weaponize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA