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nuclearize

nuclearize verb: to arm with nuclear weapons.

Verb

nuclearize (third-person singular simple present nuclearizes, present participle nuclearizing, simple past and past participle nuclearized)

  1. (transitive) To arm with nuclear weapons.

Forms of nuclearize

third-person singular presentnuclearizes
present participlenuclearizing
past participlenuclearized
pastnuclearized

Origin of nuclearize

From nuclear + -ize.

Words formed from nuclearize

Questions about nuclearize

What does nuclearize mean?
Nuclearize means to arm with nuclear weapons.
What part of speech is nuclearize?
Nuclearize is a verb.
What is the past tense of nuclearize?
The past tense of nuclearize is nuclearized.

Words near nuclearize in the dictionary

  1. nuclearites
  2. nuclearities
  3. nuclearity
  4. nuclearization
  5. nuclearizations
  6. nuclearize
  7. nuclearized
  8. nuclearizes
  9. nuclearizing
  10. nuclearly
  11. nucleary

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