Definition of "masculinize" verb third-person singular simple present masculinizes , present participle masculinizing , simple past and past participle masculinized
(transitive) To make masculine ; to give typically male characteristics . quotations examples
Quotations Returning to the sculptor described earlier , we know why that young woman suffered . She was housebound and bedbound , her face was changed by steroids , she was masculinized by her treatment , one breast was scarred , and she had almost no hair .
1982 March 18, Eric J. Cassel[l], “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, number 11, page 642