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masculinizing

masculinizing is the present participle and gerund of masculinize.

Meaning of masculinize

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.
    • 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.1982 March 18, Eric J. Cassel[l], “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, number 11, →DOI, page 642
    Synonyms:
    manify, masculize

Questions about masculinizing

What is masculinizing the present participle and gerund of?
Masculinizing is the present participle and gerund of masculinize.

Words near masculinizing in the dictionary

  1. masculinization
  2. masculinizations
  3. masculinize
  4. masculinized
  5. masculinizes
  6. masculinizing
  7. masculisation
  8. masculise
  9. masculised
  10. masculises
  11. masculising

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