Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

masculize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mas-culize
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To masculinize.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From Latin masculus (“male, masculine”) + -ize.

Inflected Forms

masculizes (present, singular) masculizing (participle, present) masculized (participle, past) masculized (past) masculise (alternative)

Derived Forms

masculization

Questions

What does masculize mean?: To masculinize.
Where does masculize come from?: From Latin masculus (“male, masculine”) + -ize.

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