masculinize
verb
mas·cu·lin·ize
ˈma-skyə-lə-ˌnīz 
masculinized; masculinizing
: to give a chiefly masculine character to
especially
: to cause (a female) to take on male characteristics
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Black women are hypersexualized all the time, and masculinized simultaneously.
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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
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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
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“Masculinize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/masculinize. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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masculinize
transitive verb
mas·cu·lin·ize
variants
also British masculinise
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
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