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
Colombia’s truth commission says paramilitary groups, which demobilized under deals with Uribe’s government, killed more than 205,000 people, nearly half of the 450,000 deaths recorded during the ongoing civil conflict.
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CNN Money, 28 July 2025
Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell on Tuesday confirmed that approximately 2,000 of the 4,000 California National Guard troops deployed in the region would begin demobilizing.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
Although he was demobilized in February, 1919, the Old Comrades Association commissioned him to write the history of the battalion between 1915 and 1918.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
Its influence extended around the world: In 2006, an advertising agency in Bogotá, Colombia, was asked by the government to research, prototype, and launch an ad campaign imploring a group of Marxist-Leninist guerrilla fighters to demobilize.
—Celine Nguyen, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
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CNN Money, 28 July 2025
Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell on Tuesday confirmed that approximately 2,000 of the 4,000 California National Guard troops deployed in the region would begin demobilizing.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
Although he was demobilized in February, 1919, the Old Comrades Association commissioned him to write the history of the battalion between 1915 and 1918.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
Its influence extended around the world: In 2006, an advertising agency in Bogotá, Colombia, was asked by the government to research, prototype, and launch an ad campaign imploring a group of Marxist-Leninist guerrilla fighters to demobilize.
—Celine Nguyen, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demobilize
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Europe is remilitarizing after decades of demilitarizing.—
John Rennie Short,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
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Later, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated his government's longstanding demands that Ukraine be demilitarized and stop trying to be allied with the West.—
Mithil Aggarwal,
NBC news,
21 Aug. 2025
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The president was additionally nominated for the prize last year for the brokerage of the Abraham Accords and by 18 House Republicans in 2018 for denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and ending the 68-year-old war between North and South Korea.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
31 July 2025
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In recent months, administration officials have said that the president’s goal remains the same: completely denuclearizing North Korea.—
Max Kim,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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The home screen has large buttons for arming and disarming the system, and below that are panels for the lock, the doorbell, any other connected devices, Trusted Neighbor, and Alerts.—
John R. Delaney,
PC Magazine,
11 Sep. 2025
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Those few words disarmed a multitude of critics at home and abroad who have long accused him of being an authoritarian leader.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Demobilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demobilize. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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