Weaponize vs Weaponized - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between weaponize and weaponized

is that weaponize is to make into a weapon while weaponized is past tense of weaponize.

made into, or to serve as, a weapon.

* weaponise (non-Oxford British spelling)

To make into a weapon.

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

To make more effective as a weapon.

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

* weaponizeable

* (UK) weaponised

(en adjective)

Made into, or to serve as, a weapon.

Weaponized anthrax is a biological terror weapon where anthrax found in the wild is unlikely to cause a plague.

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