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Webster 1913 Edition
Muscularize
Mus′cu-lar-ize
,Verb.
T.
To make muscular.
Lowell.
Definition 2024
muscularize
muscularize
English
Alternative forms
- muscularise
Verb
muscularize (third-person singular simple present muscularizes, present participle muscularizing, simple past and past participle muscularized)
- To increase the size of the muscles.
- 1993, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder, page 159
- Advanced freehand exercises shape and muscularize the body in a unique way; all the world's best-built men include them in their workouts.
- 1993, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder, page 159
- (transitive) To make (something) more masculine, virile, or militaristic.
- 2002, L. Dean Allen, Rise Up, O Men of God: the Men and Religion Forward Movement and Promise Keepers, page 73
- Perhaps the most famous example of this impulse to muscularize Christianity in the early twentieth century was evangelist Billy Sunday.
- 2002, L. Dean Allen, Rise Up, O Men of God: the Men and Religion Forward Movement and Promise Keepers, page 73