Wiktionary
alt. (context transitive English) To make masculine; to give typically male characteristics. vb. (context transitive English) To make masculine; to give typically male characteristics.
WordNet
v. give a masculine appearance or character to; "Fashion designers have masculinized women's looks in the 1990s"
produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy; "the drugs masculinized the teenage girl" [syn: masculinise, virilize, virilise]
Usage examples of "masculinize".
Though he could understand her feelings, it was a shame to masculinize those lovely features.
Lord Dono wore his neat Vor-style black tunic and trousers with gray piping and decoration, clearly mourning garb, which not coincidentally set off his newly masculinized good looks.
It is also possible to prepare synthetic androgens that retain the general protein-forming property and not the specialized masculinizing one.
It is for this reason that a tumor of the cortex, leading to the overproduction of its steroids, does have a strongly masculinizing effect on women.
Was it not past a doubt that radiation or even minor stress might trigger the masculinizing effect again?
By masculinizing Her origins, Eastern and Western tellers were undoubtedly trying to grapple with the reality of the Great Feminine in a patriarchal context.