DEMOBILIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does demobilize mean? 

• DEMOBILIZE (verb)
  The verb DEMOBILIZE has 2 senses:

1. release from military service or remove from the active list of military service

2. retire from military service

  Familiarity information: DEMOBILIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMOBILIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they demobilize    ... he / she / it demobilizes   
Past simple: demobilized   
Past participle: demobilized   
-ing form: demobilizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Release from military service or remove from the active list of military service

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

demobilise; demobilize; inactivate

Hypernyms (to "demobilize" is one way to...):

discharge; muster out (release from military service)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

mobilize (call to arms; of military personnel)

Derivation:

demobilization (act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Retire from military service

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

demob; demobilise; demobilize

Hypernyms (to "demobilize" is one way to...):

discharge; muster out (release from military service)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

mobilize (get ready for war)

Derivation:

demobilization (act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops)