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PRONUNCIATION OF WEAPONIZE

weaponize  [ˈwɛpəˌnaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WEAPONIZE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Weaponize is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb weaponize in English.

WHAT DOES WEAPONIZE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of weaponize in the English dictionary

The definition of weaponize in the dictionary is to adapt in such a way that it can be used as a weapon.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO WEAPONIZE

PRESENT

Present
I weaponize
you weaponize
he/she/it weaponizes
we weaponize
you weaponize
they weaponize
Present continuous
I am weaponizing
you are weaponizing
he/she/it is weaponizing
we are weaponizing
you are weaponizing
they are weaponizing
Present perfect
I have weaponized
you have weaponized
he/she/it has weaponized
we have weaponized
you have weaponized
they have weaponized
Present perfect continuous
I have been weaponizing
you have been weaponizing
he/she/it has been weaponizing
we have been weaponizing
you have been weaponizing
they have been weaponizing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I weaponized
you weaponized
he/she/it weaponized
we weaponized
you weaponized
they weaponized
Past continuous
I was weaponizing
you were weaponizing
he/she/it was weaponizing
we were weaponizing
you were weaponizing
they were weaponizing
Past perfect
I had weaponized
you had weaponized
he/she/it had weaponized
we had weaponized
you had weaponized
they had weaponized
Past perfect continuous
I had been weaponizing
you had been weaponizing
he/she/it had been weaponizing
we had been weaponizing
you had been weaponizing
they had been weaponizing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will weaponize
you will weaponize
he/she/it will weaponize
we will weaponize
you will weaponize
they will weaponize
Future continuous
I will be weaponizing
you will be weaponizing
he/she/it will be weaponizing
we will be weaponizing
you will be weaponizing
they will be weaponizing
Future perfect
I will have weaponized
you will have weaponized
he/she/it will have weaponized
we will have weaponized
you will have weaponized
they will have weaponized
Future perfect continuous
I will have been weaponizing
you will have been weaponizing
he/she/it will have been weaponizing
we will have been weaponizing
you will have been weaponizing
they will have been weaponizing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would weaponize
you would weaponize
he/she/it would weaponize
we would weaponize
you would weaponize
they would weaponize
Conditional continuous
I would be weaponizing
you would be weaponizing
he/she/it would be weaponizing
we would be weaponizing
you would be weaponizing
they would be weaponizing
Conditional perfect
I would have weaponize
you would have weaponize
he/she/it would have weaponize
we would have weaponize
you would have weaponize
they would have weaponize
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been weaponizing
you would have been weaponizing
he/she/it would have been weaponizing
we would have been weaponizing
you would have been weaponizing
they would have been weaponizing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you weaponize
we let´s weaponize
you weaponize
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to weaponize
Past participle
weaponized
Present Participle
weaponizing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WEAPONIZE


agonize
ˈæɡəˌnaɪz
caponise
ˈkeɪpəˌnaɪz
caponize
ˈkeɪpəˌnaɪz
colonise
ˈkɒləˌnaɪz
colonize
ˈkɒləˌnaɪz
dehumanize
diːˈhjuːməˌnaɪz
euthanize
ˈjuːθəˌnaɪz
harmonize
ˈhɑːməˌnaɪz
humanize
ˈhjuːməˌnaɪz
ionize
ˈaɪəˌnaɪz
Italianize
ɪˈtæljəˌnaɪz
japanize
ˈdʒæpəˌnaɪz
modernize
ˈmɒdəˌnaɪz
organize
ˈɔːɡəˌnaɪz
patronize
ˈpætrəˌnaɪz
reorganize
riːˈɔːɡəˌnaɪz
revolutionize
ˌrɛvəˈluːʃəˌnaɪz
synchronise
ˈsɪŋkrəˌnaɪz
synchronize
ˈsɪŋkrəˌnaɪz
westernize
ˈwɛstəˌnaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WEAPONIZE

wean
weanel
weaner
weaning
weanling
weapon
weapon dog
weapon system
weaponed
weaponeer
weaponless
weaponry
weapons inspector
weapons of mass destruction
weapons-grade
wear
wear and tear
wear down
wear off
wear one´s heart on one´s sleeve

WORDS THAT END LIKE WEAPONIZE

antagonize
canonize
carbonize
decolonize
demonize
disharmonize
euphonize
lionize
matronize
peptonize
recognize
recolonize
religionize
resurrectionize
resynchronize
sectionize
sermonize
simonize
Teutonize
uncanonize
unionize

Synonyms and antonyms of weaponize in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «weaponize» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WEAPONIZE

Find out the translation of weaponize to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of weaponize from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «weaponize» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

武器化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

weaponize
570 millions of speakers

English

weaponize
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Weaponize
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تسليح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

боеприпас
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

weaponize
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

weaponize
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

weaponize
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Senjata
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

weaponize
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

兵器化する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

weaponize
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Weaponize
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

weaponize
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

weaponize
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शस्त्रक्रिया करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

weaponize
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

weaponize
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

weaponize
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

боєприпас
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

weaponize
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σε όπλο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

weaponize
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

weaponize
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

weaponize
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of weaponize

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WEAPONIZE»

The term «weaponize» is normally little used and occupies the 109.658 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WEAPONIZE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «weaponize» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «weaponize» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about weaponize

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEAPONIZE»

Discover the use of weaponize in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to weaponize and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Popular Science
Pike and other critics further caution that any moves to weaponize space will only legitimize future efforts by others to develop antisatellite technologies — and will turn the U.S.'s asymmetrical advantage into a vulnerability. For now, the focus ...
2
Combating terrorism need for comprehensive threat and risk ...
Moderately difficult to process and weaponize. Stable. Months on wood and in sand. Very low if treated. Level 3. IND. Tested in guinea pigs. Produces adverse reactions. Self-limited illness without treatment. Antibiotics shorten illness.
3
Combating Terrorism: Need for Comprehensive Threat and Risk ...
Q Fever (rickettsial organism) Difficult to acquire seed stock. Moderately difficult to process and weaponize. Stable. Months on wood and in sand. Very low if treated. Level 3. IND. Tested in guinea pigs. Produces adverse reactions. Self- limited ...
4
Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis
(50) a Anthrax was hard to weaponize. (Guardian, 15.10.2001, p. 5, col. 2) b [The powder] was not, however, “weaponized” – genetically modified to be antibiotic- resistant. (Independent, 22.10.2002, p. 5, col. 3) c Among those countries are ...
Liliane Haegeman, 2009
5
Our Own Worst Enemy: Asking the Right Questions About ...
If you can weaponize Bacillus globigii, you can weaponize Bacillus anthracis. A small team of scientists, with no experience in the production of bioweapons or access to classified information on the process, demonstrated how easy it is to ...
Randall Larsen, 2007
6
Sit-Ups and Supersex: Metafictional Ventilations of Times ...
DRAMATIZE,. MEDIASIZE,. THEN. WEAPONIZE. THOSE. BIONIC. Y. OGAHIPS. Time in the increasingly busy and noisy bar ticked by as Nick, Dublin, complete with his “Ere we go again look”, Omni, Neon, Nivja and co, were jiving themselves ...
Celine Flux, 2011
7
Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Reference Handbook
The U.S. Air Force stockpiled but did not weaponize rice blast, rye stem rust, and wheat stem rust. Anti-animal BW agents could include foot-and-mouth disease, glanders, psittacosis (against chickens), rinderpest (cattle plague), camel pox, ...
Albert J. Mauroni, 2007
8
Covert Action
Anthrax is a great terror weapon, but it's not contagious, and it's very hard to weaponize—to get the spores small enough to stay airborne. That's a problem, because it takes about twenty thousand anthrax spores to infect a person. As a terrorist ...
Dick Couch, 2005
9
Garner's Modern American Usage
See ILLOGIC. LANGUAGE-CHANGE INDEX weaned on for raised on: Stage 2 weaponize. For a long time—probably beginning in the 1970s—this - izeNEOLOGISM was in the exclusive domain of military and international- relations jargon.
Bryan Garner, 2009
10
Nuclear Disarmament in the Twenty-first Century
France would downsize its strategic arsenal to 350-400 offensive warheads from their present approximately 45014. China would commit itself to 300-350- warhead nuclear arsenal and join the CTBT. India would agree not to weaponize and ...
Wade L. Huntley, Mitsuru Kurosawa, Kazumi Mizumoto, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEAPONIZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term weaponize is used in the context of the following news items.
1
How candidates 'weaponize' Campaign 2016
Jeb Bush aims to 'weaponize' his fundraising numbers to break out of a crowded GOP primary pack. Other candidates bash each other with truth-squad web ... «Christian Science Monitor, Jun 15»
2
Bush Team Aims to 'Weaponize' PAC Money for 'Crushing Advantage'
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's super PAC plans to raise as much money as possible in the final days of the first fundraising period, with the aim to "weaponize" ... «Newsmax, Jun 15»
3
First Draft | Jeb Bush's Team Aims to 'Weaponize' Its Fund-Raising …
The “super PAC” supporting Jeb Bush, now walled off from the candidate because of campaign finance rules, hopes to “weaponize” its fund-raising total for the ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
4
Navy openly solicits for 0-day bugs to weaponize
They're only interested in "0-day or N-day (no older than 6 months old)" bugs, meaning bugs that can be weaponized because no patch for them exists or has ... «Boing Boing, Jun 15»
5
Bill 20 Could Weaponize Voter Data In BC
... commissioner and with no public consultation. And it has the potential to weaponize data profiling by political parties and candidates across British Columbia. «Huffington Post Canada, May 15»
6
First Memories Pizza, now Michael Slager: When did we weaponize
Just before 6 p.m. Tuesday, South Carolina police officer Michael Slager was arrested on murder charges for shooting an unarmed black man in the back as he ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
7
Lefties Weaponize Elizabeth Warren
Progressives in Oregon have brought in the progressive champion to star in a mailer slamming their state's senior senator over a trade treaty—and Warren's ... «Daily Beast, Apr 15»
8
'Weaponized' religious exemptions, in turn, weaponize religion (part 1)
David Watkins offers what I think is a helpful insight with a discussion of what he calls “The Weaponization of Religious Exemptions.” This covers some of the ... «Patheos, Apr 15»
9
Climate researcher claims CIA asked about weaponized weather …
Robock seems especially worried about intelligence agencies weaponizing the weather since climate control is "a potential tool of international conflict. «Computerworld, Feb 15»
10
Venomous Cone Snails Weaponize Insulin to Stun Prey
Safavi and her colleagues found the weaponized insulin when they were screening venoms from various cone snails. More than 100 species of these ... «Live Science, Jan 15»

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