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♂️ To make male 🧑‍🎤 To make masculine
to masculinize

to masculinize

8.8
To give a person or thing a more male appearance
  • verb
  • /ˈmæskjʊlɪnaɪz/
translation icon : masculinizar
  • In general, you could say that the modern poets we've been reading aggressively and self consciously masculinize poetry.
  • masculinized women

They're trying to sort of re masculinize Chinese men.

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Examples

  • Fashionable dress, she contends, has the potential to masculinize women and emasculate men.

    Academic text (2016)

  • They're trying to sort of re masculinize Chinese men.

    Chris Williamson

  • Thus, even this female form of the gaucho persona had to be masculinized.

    Academic text (1995)

  • As the household's primary breadwinner, Kate is ostensibly masculinized, but the series handles her gender identity complexly.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The designer aimed to masculinize the clothing line by incorporating sharper lines and darker colors.

  • Some believe that certain advertisements strive to masculinize beauty standards in society.

  • He tried to masculinize his image by adopting a more rugged style of dress.

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
8.8

Surface Forms

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

Morphology

masculinize = masculine (transparent) = masculine + ize

A straightforward adjectival-to-verb derivation: 'masculine' + '-ize' = 'to make or give a masculine character'.

Etymology

Masculinize is formed from the word masculine ('male') and the ending -ize ('to make'). So to masculinize something is to give it a more 'masculine' look or character, for example by changing style or behavior to seem more 'male'.