weaponized

English

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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.
    • 2018 May 8, Steve Almond, “Save Me From This Domestic Drudgery! The Sweet Spot column”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      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.

Derived terms

Verb

weaponized

  1. simple past and past participle of weaponize
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