demilitarise

Other forms of demilitarise

past tense

demilitarised·

present participle

demilitarising·

third person

demilitarises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about demilitarise

What does demilitarise mean?

demilitarise means "do away with the military organization and potential of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in demilitarise?

demilitarise has 5 syllables: de-mi-li-ta-rise. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for demilitarise?

Close synonyms include demilitarize, disarm, demilitarize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of demilitarise?

The recorded antonyms are militarise.

Is demilitarise a common word?

demilitarise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.