overmilitarize

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Etymology[edit]

over- +‎ militarize.

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overmilitarize (third-person singular simple present overmilitarizes, present participle overmilitarizing, simple past and past participle overmilitarized)

  1. To militarize excessively, or to overemphasize military solutions and approaches
    • 1988 January 29, Michael Miner, “Art of Our Arrogance/Rethinking Vietnam”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      "We overmilitarized," he said.

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