weaponize

1. (transitive) To make into a weapon.Examples: "Anything can be weaponized. A big enough rock, dropped from a sufficient height, is a very good weapon."; "The writer has to an unusually high degree the gift of being able to coin a telling phrase, though I do not like the verb in the sentence "However unassailable their arguments may be they could not weaponize their strength.""; "Though most Russian efforts unveiled thus far seem to have been aimed at weaponizing the far right, the existence of BlackMattersUS indicates Russian agents were equally motivated to infiltrate the far left in order to amplify partisan divides that would simultaneously energize Trump’s base and disillusion Hillary’s."BritishEnglishOxfordUStransitive

2. (transitive) To make more effective as a weapon.Examples: "To weaponize anthrax it is made more distributable, not more virulent."BritishEnglishOxfordUStransitive