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demilitarize

 verb
     
Related topics: Military
de‧mil‧i‧ta‧rize also demilitarise British English [transitive usually passive]
PM to remove the weapons, soldiers etc from a country or area so that there can be no fighting there:
the demilitarized zone between the two countries
—demilitarization noun [uncountable]
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