masculinize

English

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Etymology

From masculine + -ize.

Verb

masculinize (third-person singular simple present masculinizes, present participle masculinizing, simple past and past participle masculinized)

  1. (transitive) To make masculine; to give typically male characteristics.
    • {{quote-journal|en|date=1982-03-18|author=w:[[Eric Cassell|Eric J. Cassel[l]]]|title=The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine|journal=w:The New England Journal of Medicine|volume=306|issue=11|doi=10.1056/NEJM198203183061104|page=642|passage=Returning to the sculptor described earlier, we know why that young woman suffered. She was housebound and bedbound, her face was changed by steroids, she was masculinized by her treatment, one breast was scarred, and she had almost no hair.}}
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      Impersonality always masculinizes a woman.

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Galician

Verb

masculinize

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of masculinizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

masculinize

  1. inflection of masculinizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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