Definition of remilitarize in English:
remilitarize
(British remilitarise)
verb riːˈmɪlɪtərʌɪzriˈmɪlədəˌraɪz
[with object]Supply (a place that has previously been demilitarized) with new military resources.
the Rhineland was remilitarized in 1936
Example sentencesExamples
- Turkey eventually rejected the terms of that treaty, and subsequently Turkey remilitarized the straits area.
- Why was Hitler allowed to remilitarize the Rhineland, annex Austria, and invade Czechoslovakia before the Allies confronted him over his incursion into Poland in September 1939?
- German forces remilitarized the territory in 1936, as part of a diplomatic test of will, three years before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Definition of remilitarize in US English:
remilitarize
(British remilitarise)
verbrēˈmilədəˌrīzriˈmɪlədəˌraɪz
[with object]Supply (a place that has previously been demilitarized) with new military resources.
the Rhineland was remilitarized in 1936
Example sentencesExamples
- Turkey eventually rejected the terms of that treaty, and subsequently Turkey remilitarized the straits area.
- German forces remilitarized the territory in 1936, as part of a diplomatic test of will, three years before the outbreak of the Second World War.
- Why was Hitler allowed to remilitarize the Rhineland, annex Austria, and invade Czechoslovakia before the Allies confronted him over his incursion into Poland in September 1939?