weaponize

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• /ˈwɛpənaɪz/
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From weapon + -ize. First use appears c. 1938. See cite below.

25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Esperanto: armiliĝi — make into a weapon
• Esperanto: armiĝi — make into a weapon
• Finnish: tehdä ase — make into a weapon
• Finnish: käyttää aseena — make into a weapon
• Finnish: aseellistaa — make into a weapon
• French: arsenaliser — make into a weapon
• German: zu einer Waffe machen — make into a weapon
• German: in eine Waffe verwandeln — make into a weapon
• German: als Waffe verwenden — make into a weapon
• German: als Waffe benutzen — make into a weapon
• Hungarian: fegyverként használ — make into a weapon
• Italian: utilizzare come arma — make into a weapon
• Italian: trasformare in arma — make into a weapon
• Korean: 무기화(武器化)하다 (mugihwahada) — make into a weapon
• Russian: использовать как оружие (ispolʹzovatʹ kak oružije) — make into a weapon
• Serbo-Croatian: upotrijebiti kao oružje — make into a weapon
• Serbo-Croatian: pretvoriti u oružje — make into a weapon
• Serbo-Croatian: veponizirati — make into a weapon
• Spanish: utilizar / instrumentalizar como arma — make into a weapon
• Spanish: convertir / transformar en arma — make into a weapon
• Spanish: instrumentar un arma con — make into a weapon
• Spanish: usar en contra de — make into a weapon
• Spanish: esgrimir — make into a weapon
• Swedish: göra till ett vapen — make into a weapon
• Swedish: vapenisera — make into a weapon