MASCULINIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does masculinize mean? 

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

1. give a masculine appearance or character to

2. produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy

  Familiarity information: MASCULINIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MASCULINIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they masculinize    ... he / she / it masculinizes   
Past simple: masculinized   
Past participle: masculinized   
-ing form: masculinizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give a masculine appearance or character to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Fashion designers have masculinized women's looks in the 1990s

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

masculinise; masculinize; virilise; virilize (produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

masculinise; masculinize; virilise; virilize

Context example:

the drugs masculinized the teenage girl

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

masculinize (give a masculine appearance or character to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

masculinization (the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction))