overmilitarize
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From over- + militarize.
Verb
[edit]overmilitarize (third-person singular simple present overmilitarizes, present participle overmilitarizing, simple past and past participle overmilitarized)
- 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.