muscularize
muscularize verb: to increase the size of the muscles.
Verb
muscularize (third-person singular simple present muscularizes, present participle muscularizing, simple past and past participle muscularized)
- To increase the size of the muscles.
- I need to lift weights & muscularize my chest—it's still so sunken in.1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- Advanced freehand exercises shape and muscularize the body in a unique way; all the world's best-built men include them in their workouts.1993, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder,, page 159
- To make (something) more masculine, virile, or militaristic.
- Perhaps the most famous example of this impulse to muscularize Christianity in the early twentieth century was evangelist Billy Sunday.2002, L. Dean Allen, Rise Up, O Men of God: the Men and Religion Forward Movement and Promise Keepers, page 73
Forms of muscularize
| third-person singular present | muscularizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | muscularizing |
| past participle | muscularized |
| past | muscularized |
| alternative form | muscularise |
Origin of muscularize
From muscular + -ize.
Words formed from muscularize
Questions about muscularize
- What does muscularize mean?
- Muscularize means to increase the size of the muscles.
- What part of speech is muscularize?
- Muscularize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of muscularize?
- The past tense of muscularize is muscularized.
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