VERB | competition | demilitarise, demilitarize | do away with the military organization and potential of |
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competition | demilitarise, disarm, demilitarize | remove offensive capability from |
Meaning | Do away with the military organization and potential of. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
Synonym | demilitarize | |
Narrower | neutralize, neutralise | make incapable of military action |
Broader | disarm, unarm | take away the weapons from |
Opposite | militarize, militarise | lend a military character to (a country) , as by building up a military force |
Spanish | desmilitarizar |
Meaning | Remove offensive capability from. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
Synonyms | disarm, demilitarize | |
Opposite | arm, build up, fortify, gird | Prepare oneself for a military confrontation |
Spanish | desarmar, desmilitarizar | |
Catalan | desarmar, desmilitaritzar |
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