Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause to have qualities that are perceived as masculine.
- transitive verb To cause (a female) to assume masculine characteristics, as through the influence of hormones.
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- verb transitive To make
masculine ; to give typicallymale characteristics.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give a masculine appearance or character to
- verb produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy
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Examples
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(A theory: by vibrating their vocal cords to lower the sound they produce, young ladies want to "masculinize" their voices, thereby taking revenge on rampant sexism).
John Brown: Like it or not: America's Dirty Little Secret 2010
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(A theory: by vibrating their vocal cords to lower the sound they produce, young ladies want to "masculinize" their voices, thereby taking revenge on rampant sexism).
John Brown: Like It or Not: America's Dirty Little Secret 2010
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Skate Canada is trying to "masculinize" a sport long known for its sequin-studded costumes.
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She likes to "masculinize" overtly girly looks, like frilly dresses, by wearing flat boots, she says.
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While figure skating tries to become more mainstream and looks for some love from the NFL-loving fans, while it tries to "masculinize" its sport, it shouldn't forget about athletic showmen like Johnny Weir.
The Seattle Times 2010
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In this context, at the level of the hippocampus, it appears that males and females seem to engineer a competition between each other for the remaining available food, i.e. the females 'masculinize' to aid their competition with any resident males.
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Now imagine the process by which a developing embryo reads the X and Y chromosomes and uses them to masculinize or feminize a developing brain.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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That degree of testosterone exposure appears to masculinize certain physiological features, such as finger-length ratios.
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The push to masculinize women occurrred in the 1970's .
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There is however no big push to masculinize women.
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