remilitarize

verb

re·mil·i·ta·rize (ˌ)rē-ˈmi-lə-tə-ˌrīz

remilitarized; remilitarizing

transitive + intransitive

: to militarize again

a remilitarized region/country

If the Japanese lost confidence in American security guarantees, they would doubtless remilitarize …—

John Newhouse

remilitarization

(ˌ)rē-ˌmi-lə-t(ə-)rə-ˈzā-shən

noun

plural remilitarizations

Kershaw closes with an examination of Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland … —

Publishers Weekly

Examples of remilitarize in a Sentence

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The North closed off all communication lines with the South, and threatened to send troops into border cooperation zones and remilitarize the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas. —

Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 June 2020