militarise

Other forms of militarise

past tense

militarised·

present participle

militarising·

third person

militarises·

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 militarise

What does militarise mean?

militarise means "lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in militarise?

militarise has 4 syllables: mi-li-ta-rise. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for militarise?

Close synonyms include militarize, militarize. 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 militarise?

The recorded antonyms are demilitarise.

Is militarise a common word?

militarise 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.