masculinize

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verb

1. give a masculine appearance or character to
- Fashion designers have masculinized women's looks in the 1990s
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Group:
masculinise, virilize, virilise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
2. produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy
- the drugs masculinized the teenage girl
• Syn:
masculinise, virilize, virilise
• Derivationally related forms:
virilization (for: virilize), masculinization
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody