overmilitarize

English

Alternative forms

• overmilitarise

Etymology

over- +‎ militarize.

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• overmilitarization