muscularize

== English == === Alternative forms === muscularise === Etymology === From muscular +‎ -ize. === Verb === muscularize (third-person singular simple present muscularizes, present participle muscularizing, simple past and past participle muscularized) 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. (transitive) To make (something) more masculine, virile, or militaristic. ==== Derived terms ====