What does muscularize mean?
Muscularize means To increase the size of the muscles..
Muscularize
Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
Meaning
To increase the size of the muscles..
Definitions by Sense
- To increase the size of the muscles.
- (transitive) To make (something) more masculine, virile, or militaristic.
Example Sentences
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.
Advanced freehand exercises shape and muscularize the body in a unique way; all the world's best-built men include them in their workouts.
Perhaps the most famous example of this impulse to muscularize Christianity in the early twentieth century was evangelist Billy Sunday.
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Word Forms
- muscularizes
- muscularizing
- muscularized
- muscularise
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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.
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