Vi·et·nam·ize (vē-ět'nə-mīz', vyět'-, vē'ĭt-) tr.v.
Vi·et·nam·ized, Vi·et·nam·iz·ing, Vi·et·nam·iz·es To turn over responsibility for (military operations, for example) to the South Vietnamese: "a policy of Vietnamizing the actual fighting"(C.L. Sulzberger).