"masculinizing" in the verb sense
1. masculinize
give a masculine appearance or character to
"Fashion designers have masculinized women's looks in the 1990s"
2. masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise
produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy
"the drugs masculinized the teenage girl"
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