What does masculize mean?
Masculize means (rare) To masculinize..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(rare) To masculinize..
Some ancient physicians, Bartholin, Perrault, Sturm, and, later Grasmeyer, have thought that, even without fecundation, the marriage relation suffices, after a time, to masculize woman.
"I think it's social experimentation, and I don't think it's going to help us win the war," she said. "They want to masculize the women and feminize the men, so that we're a gender-neutral society."
She urged "extreme caution" about giving children or teens masculizing or feminizing hormones — testosterone or estrogen — to people under 18.
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Masculize means (rare) To masculinize..
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Some ancient physicians, Bartholin, Perrault, Sturm, and, later Grasmeyer, have thought that, even without fecundation, the marriage relation suffices, after a time, to masculize woman.
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