Muscularize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Muscularize is a verb meaning To increase the size of the muscles.
Meaning
To increase the size of the muscles.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To make (something) more masculine, virile, or militaristic.
Example Sentences
Perhaps the most famous example of this impulse to muscularize Christianity in the early twentieth century was evangelist Billy Sunday.
Advanced freehand exercises shape and muscularize the body in a unique way; all the world's best-built men include them in their workouts.
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.
Word Forms
- muscularizes
- muscularizing
- muscularized
- muscularise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include muscle up, bulk up, remuscularize, masculate, hypertrophy, increase.
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