weaponized

English

Alternative forms

• weaponised (UK)

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], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 August 2025:

     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

• nonweaponized
• unweaponized
• weaponized incompetence

Verb

weaponized

1. simple past and past participle of weaponize