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muscularizing

muscularizing is the present participle and gerund of muscularize.

Meaning of muscularize

Verb

muscularize (third-person singular simple present muscularizes, present participle muscularizing, simple past and past participle muscularized)

  1. 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
  2. (transitive) 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

Questions about muscularizing

What is muscularizing the present participle and gerund of?
Muscularizing is the present participle and gerund of muscularize.

Words near muscularizing in the dictionary

  1. muscularity
  2. muscularization
  3. muscularize
  4. muscularized
  5. muscularizes
  6. muscularizing
  7. muscularly
  8. muscularness
  9. musculated
  10. musculation
  11. musculations

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