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♂️ To make male 🧑‍🎤 To make masculine
to masculinize

to masculinize

1 9.1
To make a person, animal, or body part develop male features, often by hormones
  • verb
  • /ˈmæskjʊlɪnaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : masculinizar
  • So the claim that a trans woman who looks somewhat masculine could be triggering could technically bar the door to hundreds of thousands of butch women who happen to have been masculinized more than average due to genetics.
  • masculinizes the brain
  • hormones that masculinize
  • masculinize sexual behavior

In other words, it's estrogen that masculinizes the XY individual, that masculinizes the brain.

Examples

  • Because the female's external genitalia are so heavily masculinized, successful mating requires that the male maneuver his penis into the female's pseudopenis.

    Academic text (1998)

  • In other words, it's estrogen that masculinizes the XY individual, that masculinizes the brain.

    Andrew Huberman

  • And so the process to masculinize puts the brain at risk for a couple of things.

  • This finding raises the question of how the high estrogen levels found in the blood of males masculinize song without demasculinizing copulatory behavior?

    Academic text (1994)

  • These steroids have two main effects, androgenic or masculinizing, and anabolic or growth promoting.

  • The androgens are converted to estrogen in the mammalian brain, and the estrogen then masculinizes the brain.

    Academic text (1994)

  • These estrogens are thought to bind within the hypothalamus to intracellular estrogen receptors, where they permanently masculinize sexual behavior.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Thirty-two women most often participated in these devotions, according to Dolan, until the years after World War I when the hierarchy sought to masculinize Catholicism with large-scale public activities centered on devotional rituals.

    Academic text (1994)

  • About the Sandra thing—just as society seems to feminize gay men (willingly or unwillingly), society "masculinizes" gay women.

    Blog text (27)

  • Hormones like testosterone can masculinize the developing brain of a fetus.

Synonyms

to virilize
vsto masculinize
  • Specialized
9.9

To make women grow facial hair or have a deeper voice by hormone treatment

is used to cause male characteristics often but not only by hormonal means

Antonyms

to feminize
  • US
3 7.2

To make a person or thing more like a woman

How Masculinizing

to virilize
  • Specialized
9.9
to masculinize
  • Specialized
1 9.1

Surface Forms

masculinize infinitive
masculinized past
masculinized past participle
masculinizing present participle
masculinizes third person singular

Morphology

masculinize = masculine (transparent) = masculine + ize

The verb is a regular derivation meaning 'to make or become masculine' formed by adding the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' to 'masculine'.

Etymology

Masculinize comes from the Latin masculus, which means 'male', plus the ending -ize meaning 'to make'. So to masculinize someone is to 'make' their body or behavior more 'male', often because of hormones.