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Past tense of weaponize

regular verb

The past tense of weaponize is weaponized. The past participle is also weaponized.

Forms of weaponize

Base form (V1)weaponize /ˈwɛpənaɪz/
Past tense (V2)weaponized
Past participle (V3)weaponized
Present participleweaponizing
Third person singularweaponizes

Weaponized in a sentence

  • Anything can be weaponized. A big enough rock, dropped from a sufficient height, is a very good weapon.
  • They have weaponized social media.2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times, archived from the...
  • Weaponized anthrax is a biological terror weapon, whereas anthrax found in the wild is unlikely to cause a plague.From the entry weaponized
  • Social media hasn’t just weaponized our vanity—it’s transformed us from humans into curated digital performances.2024 November 29, Joshua Stylman, How Engineered Dependency Erases Our Autonomy. From the entry vanity
  • The last week was devoted to an equally theoretical threat—weaponized cognitohazards.2018, Paul Briggs, Altered Seasons: Monsoonrise, Secant Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry cognitohazard

Meaning of weaponize

  1. verb To make into a weapon.
  2. verb To make more effective as a weapon.

Full definition of weaponize

Questions about the past tense of weaponize

What is the past tense of weaponize?
The past tense of weaponize is weaponized.
What is the past participle of weaponize?
The past participle of weaponize is weaponized.
Is weaponize a regular or irregular verb?
Weaponize is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weaponize (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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