muscularize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To increase the size of the muscles.
    — 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.
  2. To make (something) more masculine, virile, or militaristic. transitive
    — Perhaps the most famous example of this impulse to muscularize Christianity in the early twentieth century was evangelist Billy Sunday.

词形变化

muscularizes present,singular,third-person muscularizing participle,present muscularized participle,past muscularized past muscularise alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
muscularization neomuscularized nonmuscularized remuscularize

词源

From muscular + -ize.
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