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WEAPONIZED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of weaponize 2. to turn bacteria, poisonous chemicals, etc. into…. Learn more.
Add to word list. to turn bacteria, poisonous chemicals, etc. into weapons that could kill or injure many people. to make it possible to use something to attack a person or group: They claimed that the security agency had weaponized the internet.
Examples of weaponize in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web In opening up this particular theatre of the global migrant crisis, Lukashenka has weaponized refugees against the E.U., with the aims of destabilizing the liberal West and fanning the flames of right-wing nationalism and anti-immigrant rhetoric worldwide.
To use something in order to deliberately inflict harm on people is to weaponize it. If you start pelting your brother with grapes, he might accuse you of weaponizing your fruit salad. When a group or government weaponizes something, they take an ordinary object and turn it into a weapon.
Add to word list. the act of turning something such as bacteria, poisonous chemicals, etc. into weapons that could kill or injure many people, or of putting weapons into a place: Neurotoxins lend themselves to chemical synthesis and weaponization.
to supply or equip with a weapon or weapons: to weaponize trucks and helicopters. to develop (a chemical, microorganism, etc.) for use as a weapon, as in biological warfare: to weaponize uranium; weaponized anthrax. to use as a means to gain a powerful advantage: She has been known to weaponize her femininity.
Verb Forms. weaponize something to make something suitable for use to harm somebody or to damage something. They may have weaponized quantities of anthrax. (figurative) They were accused of weaponizing fake news on social media to gain an advantage over their opponents.
