MILITARIZE Antonyms

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• raise from a barbaric to a civilized state

• make weak

• remove offensive capability from

• make less hostile; win over

• take away the weapons from; render harmless

• make more humane

• make politically neutral and thus inoffensive

• make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of

• oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions

• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

• make incapable of military action

• make chemically neutral

• cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

• fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location)

• make (one thing) compatible with (another)

• bring into consonance or accord

• come to terms

• accept as inevitable

• To ban, remove or reduce the numbers of nuclear weapons in an area.