muscularize

English

Alternative forms
  • muscularise

Etymology

muscular +‎ -ize

Verb

muscularize (third-person singular simple present muscularizes, present participle muscularizing, simple past and past participle muscularized)

  1. 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.
  2. (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.
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