is a verb meaning to make it possible to use something to attack a person or group. This could involve turning substances such as bacteria, poisonous chemicals, etc. into weapons that could kill or injure many people. Weaponzing food, for example, could involve the provision of food of a quality or in a manner that ensures harm to the consumer, of the denial of food altogether and the destruction of food and/or food systems that ensures harm, including by starvation of a target population.

The adjectival form of the term is used If a substance, material or method is weaponized; that is, it is used as a weapon or made into a weapon. If a location or area is weaponized, it is used as a location for weapons.