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weaponized

weaponized adjective: made into, or to serve as, a weapon. Also the simple past and past participle of weaponize.

Adjective

weaponized (comparative more weaponized, superlative most weaponized)

  1. Made into, or to serve as, a weapon.
    • Weaponized anthrax is a biological terror weapon, whereas anthrax found in the wild is unlikely to cause a plague.
    • Trace that logic out a bit, and you arrive at a kind of weaponized incompetence: Your husband isn’t good at certain tasks, so he shouldn’t have to do them.2018 May 8, Steve Almond, “Save Me From This Domestic Drudgery! The Sweet Spot column”, in The New York Times

Also used as

weaponized is also the simple past and past participle of weaponize.

Forms of weaponized

comparativemore weaponized
superlativemost weaponized
alternative UKweaponised

Words formed from weaponized

Questions about weaponized

What does weaponized mean?
Weaponized means made into, or to serve as, a weapon.
What part of speech is weaponized?
Weaponized is an adjective.

Words near weaponized in the dictionary

  1. weaponists
  2. weaponizability
  3. weaponizable
  4. weaponization
  5. weaponize
  6. weaponized
  7. weaponized incompetence
  8. weaponizer
  9. weaponizers
  10. weaponizes
  11. weaponizing

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