Meaning of muscularize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To increase the size of the muscles.
2. To make (something) more masculine, virile, or militaristic.
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Examples

“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.”

“Advanced freehand exercises shape and muscularize the body in a unique way; all the world's best-built men include them in their workouts.”

“Perhaps the most famous example of this impulse to muscularize Christianity in the early twentieth century was evangelist Billy Sunday.”

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