masculinize

verb

mas·​cu·​lin·​ize ˈma-skyə-lə-ˌnīz 

masculinized; masculinizing

transitive verb

: to give a chiefly masculine character to

especially : to cause (a female) to take on male characteristics

masculinization

ˌma-skyə-lə-nə-ˈzā-shən 

noun

Examples of masculinize in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Black women are hypersexualized all the time, and masculinized simultaneously. —Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 29 May 2023

The Arkansas SAFE Act would also ban cross-hormone therapy, a gender-affirming treatment that allows for trans people to masculinize or feminize their physical appearance to be more consistent with their gender identity. —Lauren Holt, CNN, 28 Mar. 2021

Hormone microdosing is of growing interest to some nonbinary people like Rivas who want to masculinize or feminize their bodies in subtle ways. —NBC News, 13 July 2019

This distress decreases or disappears for many people who take masculinizing or feminizing hormones, according to the American Psychiatric Association. —NBC News, 13 July 2019

This was to be the moment of arrival for women’s soccer in France, which had been banned as too masculinizing during World War II and not given approval again by the French soccer federation until 1970. —Jeré Longman, New York Times, 28 June 2019

The short war myth has also romanticized, whitewashed, and masculinized Civil War history. —Fergus M. Bordewich, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2018

Reynolds had started taking testosterone earlier that year, and after years of tamping down their chest with a binder, had scheduled a consultation for top surgery (to remove breast tissue to masculinize the chest). —Loren Savini, Allure, 28 Sep. 2017

The theory is straightforward enough: These chemicals mimic the effect of the feminizing hormone estrogen and can interfere with masculinizing hormones like testosterone. —Bryan Walsh, Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1858, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for masculinize

• actualize
• antagonize
• apologise
• apologize
• capitalize
• categorize
• characterize
• commercialize
• conceptualize
• contrariwise
• criminalize
• decentralize

Medical Definition

masculinize

transitive verb

mas·​cu·​lin·​ize

variants also British masculinise

ˈmas-kyə-lə-ˌnīz 

masculinized also British masculinised; masculinizing also British masculinising

: to give a preponderantly masculine character to

especially : to cause (a female) to take on male characteristics

masculinization noun

also British masculinisation

ˌmas-kyə-lə-nə-ˈzā-shən