masculinize
verb (used with object)
to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
masculinizing
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present participleof masculinize.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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For masculinizing gender reassignment, it was 21.16% of patients before and 54.5% after.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The cowboy boot is one of them, nestled in the slender Venn diagram center of masculinizing footwear and height-augmenting footwear.
From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2023
This main point benefits from being set in a broader context of the impressive variability in the biology of masculinizing or feminizing a human fetal brain.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2013
“Steroids” in this Washington Post report refers to anabolic androgenic steroids — “anabolic” means muscle-building and “androgenic” means masculinizing.
From Washington Post
Dr. Huggins has helped to make variants of the natural hormones, substances that have little or no feminizing effect on men or masculinizing effect on women.
From Time Magazine Archive
