WEAPONIZE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they weaponize ... he / she / it weaponizes

Past simple: weaponized

Past participle: weaponized

-ing form: weaponizing

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)