Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

muscularize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mus-cu-lar-ize
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To increase the size of the muscles.

verb

To make (something) more masculine, virile, or militaristic.

Transitive verb

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."

Etymology

From muscular + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: muscular

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

muscularizes (present, singular) muscularizing (participle, present) muscularized (participle, past) muscularized (past) muscularise (alternative)

Derived Forms

muscularization neomuscularized nonmuscularized remuscularize

Questions

What does muscularize mean?: To increase the size of the muscles.
Where does muscularize come from?: From muscular + -ize.

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