Muscularize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To increase the size of the muscles.

    "1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I need to lift weights & muscularize my chest—it's still so sunken in."

  2. 2
    To make (something) more masculine, virile, or militaristic. transitive

    "Perhaps the most famous example of this impulse to muscularize Christianity in the early twentieth century was evangelist Billy Sunday."

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"1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I need to lift weights & muscularize my chest—it's still so sunken in."

Etymology

From muscular + -ize.

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