MOBILISE

mobilize, mobilise

(verb) cause to move around

mobilize, mobilise, marshal, summon

(verb) make ready for action or use; “marshal resources”

mobilize, mobilise

(verb) get ready for war

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

mobilise (third-person singular simple present mobilises, present participle mobilising, simple past and past participle mobilised) (British spelling)

(transitive) To make something mobile.

(transitive) To assemble troops and their equipment in a coordinated fashion so as to be ready for war.

(intransitive) To become made ready for war.

Antonyms

• (make something mobile): stabilise, fix

• (assemble troops and equipments to be ready for war): demobilise

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

24 May 2025

EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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