verb
Meaning 1
To remove troops from (an area).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
demilitarize
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/dɪˈmɪlɪtəɹaɪz/
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CMU ARPABET: D IY0 M IH1 L AH0 T ER0 AY2 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To prevent troops from entering (an area).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To return (an area) to civilian control, after military control.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
remove offensive capability from
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disarm, demilitarise
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
do away with the military organization and potential of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: demilitarise
Antonyms: militarize
Broader terms: disarm, unarm
Narrower terms: neutralize, neutralise
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h1 Proto-Indo-European *déh1 Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English militarize English demilitarize From de- + militarize.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: desmilitaritzar — remove troops from an area
- Danish: afmilitarisere — remove troops from an area
- Dutch: demilitariseren — remove troops from an area
- Finnish: demilitarisoida — remove troops from an area
- Finnish: vetää joukot pois — remove troops from an area
- French: démilitariser — remove troops from an area
- Galician: desmilitarizar — remove troops from an area
- German: entmilitarisieren — remove troops from an area
- Greek: αποστρατιωτικοποιώ (apostratiotikopoió) — remove troops from an area
- Hungarian: demilitarizál — remove troops from an area
- Italian: smilitarizzare — remove troops from an area
- Italian: demilitarizzare — remove troops from an area
- Polish: demilitaryzować — remove troops from an area
- Russian: демилитаризова́ть (demilitarizovátʹ) — remove troops from an area
- Russian: демилитаризова́ть (dɛmilitarizovátʹ) — remove troops from an area
- Russian: демилитаризи́ровать (demilitarizírovatʹ) — remove troops from an area
- Russian: демилитаризи́ровать (dɛmilitarizírovatʹ) — remove troops from an area
- Spanish: desmilitarizar — remove troops from an area
- Swedish: demilitarisera — remove troops from an area
- Ukrainian: демілітаризува́ти (demilitaryzuváty) — remove troops from an area