Crossword clues for militarize
militarize
The Collaborative International Dictionary
militarize \militarize\ v. t. & i. to lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force.
Syn: make military.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 To train or equip for war. 2 To adopt for use by the military. vb. 1 To train or equip for war. 2 To adopt for use by the military.
WordNet
v. lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force; "militarize Germany again after the war" [syn: militarise] [ant: demilitarize, demilitarize]
adopt for military use; "militarize the Civil Service" [syn: militarise]
Usage examples of "militarize".
In the centuries that followed, as the popes got a grip, the church became centralized, legalized, politicized, militarized.
The militarized crews demanded merchanter privileges and access to bars, against some stationer authorities who tried to put them under military discipline.
The whole conception of the militarized continental state, with its secret police, its censored literature and its conscript labour, is utterly different from that of the loose maritime democracy, with its slums and unemployment, its strikes and party politics.
US prestige could not have been greater, the Soviet Union was haemorrhaging in Afghanistan and the corridors of power buzzed with news of the famed Star Wars initiative with which the Pentagon intended to militarize space.
In the centuries that followed, as the popes got a grip, the church became centralized, legalized, politicized, militarized.
For some time they had been building up a picture of a belligerent and militarized Earth from the accounts forwarded by the mysterious "organization," none of which had mentioned the Shapieron.
They militarized and formed a totalitarian regime that imposed itself by force on a large portion of the planet before the other nations could muster the strength to resist.
Ever since America had militarized its borders soon after the March 2006 attacks, the movement of illegal aliens across the southern border had been dramatically reduced.
The same is probably true of Stalin's militarized version of Socialism.
We the unrepresented People of the United States are as much victims of this militarized government as the Panamanians, Iraqis, or Somalians.
Republican senator Arthur Vandenberg told Truman that he could have his militarized economy only if he first “scared the hell out of the American people” that the Russians were coming.
They should never have privatized the fucking military, because all that accomplished in the end was to militarize the entire private sector.