as in to demilitarize
to release (someone or something) from military service
Both leaders agreed to demobilize their armies and sign the peace treaty. Ships returned to port to be demobilized.
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Recent Examples of demobilize
Research documents how political violence leads to political repression and demobilizes social movements.
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Dana R. Fisher, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
Kiriyenko said demobilized Russian veterans from Ukraine face a different society than returning troops from the Afghan war or World War II because Soviet society was more mobilized and in a better position to support or wage conflict.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
Demilitarizing the economy and demobilizing the public would risk undermining the system that sustains his rule.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2025
In Munich, demobilized soldiers, right-wing paramilitaries, and Communist militants fought in the streets, while leaders of the new Weimar Republic were routinely assassinated.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Dana R. Fisher, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025
Kiriyenko said demobilized Russian veterans from Ukraine face a different society than returning troops from the Afghan war or World War II because Soviet society was more mobilized and in a better position to support or wage conflict.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
Demilitarizing the economy and demobilizing the public would risk undermining the system that sustains his rule.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2025
In Munich, demobilized soldiers, right-wing paramilitaries, and Communist militants fought in the streets, while leaders of the new Weimar Republic were routinely assassinated.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Similarly, pausing attacks on energy infrastructure is clearly more advantageous to Russia, as is demilitarizing the Black Sea, given Russia’s dependence on the waterway and the Russian Navy’s extreme – and one-sided – vulnerability to Ukrainian attacks.—
Douglas Schoen,
Orange County Register,
20 Mar. 2025
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The outcome that Putin wants would be a Ukraine that is permanently stripped of almost 25 percent of its territory, demilitarized, and barred from joining the EU and NATO.—
STEPHEN HADLEY,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Mar. 2025
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However, three years later, Kyiv chose to denuclearize, signing the Budapest Memorandum and transferring the weapons to Russia.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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Nonproliferation advocates hold that nuclear weapons should not spread anywhere, and in many cases argue that all countries that possess these weapons should denuclearize.—
Robert E. Kelly,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Dec. 2024
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Katz's remarks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated calls for Hamas to disarm and said the application of military pressure was the best way to get back the remaining 59 hostages.—
James Mackenzie,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2025
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Israel has also called on the terror group to disarm and leave the territory, conditions that were not in the ceasefire agreement.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Demobilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demobilize. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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