Meaning

2 senses

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

Origin

From muscular + -ize.

From muscular + -ize.

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Forms

muscularizes, muscularizing, muscularized, muscularized
Base formmuscularize · to muscularize
3rd person singularmuscularizes
Present participlemuscularizing
Past simplemuscularized
Past participlemuscularized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymuscularize
he, she, itmuscularizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsmuscularized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave muscularized
he, she, ithas muscularized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill muscularize

Word family

4 related words
Derivedmuscularizationneomuscularizednonmuscularizedremuscularize

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
muscleB1muscovitemuscularC1museB2museumA2
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