英和和英

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈwɛpənaɪz/

動詞

weaponize (third-person singular simple present weaponizes, present participle weaponizing, simple past and past participle weaponized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (transitive) To make into a weapon.

   Anything can be weaponized. A big enough rock, dropped from a sufficient height, is a very good weapon.

   • 1938, Scottish Geographical Magazine‎, volume 54, page 119:

     The writer has to an unusually high degree the gift of being able to coin a telling phrase, though I do not like the verb in the sentence "However unassailable their arguments may be they could not weaponize their strength."

   • 2017 October 18, Maya Kosoff, “The Russian troll farm that weaponized Facebook had American boots on the ground”, in Vanity Fair‎, archived from the original on 8 February 2018:

     Though most Russian efforts unveiled thus far seem to have been aimed at weaponizing the far right, the existence of BlackMattersUS indicates Russian agents were equally motivated to infiltrate the far left in order to amplify partisan divides that would simultaneously energize Trump’s base and disillusion Hillary’s.

   • 2018 August 2, Kara Swisher, “The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 20 August 2020:

     They have weaponized social media. They have weaponized the First Amendment. They have weaponized civic discourse. And they have weaponized, most of all, politics.

   • 2023 March 1, Aaron Kliegman, “Newsom declares war on environmentalists seeking to halt construction project”, in Fox News‎, archived from the original on 15 March 2023:

     "Our CEQA process is clearly broken when a few wealthy Berkeley homeowners can block desperately needed student housing for years and even decades," Newsom's office said in a statement. "California cannot afford to be held hostage by NIMBYs who weaponize CEQA to block student and affordable housing. This selfish mindset is driving up housing prices, and making our state less affordable."

   • 2025 January 27, Cameron Joseph, “John Bolton says he’s faced Trump’s retribution. He worries what Kash Patel might do.”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎, spoken by John Bolton, archived from the original on 1 February 2025:

     [I]f you’re against the weaponization of the Justice Department because you think it was weaponized against you, then you don’t make the situation worse by weaponizing it against your opponents.

2. (transitive) To make more effective as a weapon.

   To weaponize anthrax it is made more distributable, not more virulent.

派生語

• weaponizable

参考

• beweapon
• weaponization