masculinize
- v give a masculine appearance or character to
Fashion designers have masculinized women's looks in the 1990s - v produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy
the drugs masculinized the teenage girl
- According to some experimenters, the presence of the male hormone testosterone in the fetus may "masculinize" the brain, organizing the fetal nerve centers in characteristic ways.
- Twin A, he adds, is ambiguous because the number of cells carrying a male-determining chromosome was not high enough to masculinize the twin.
- He reported that he had stripped the hydrogen atom from the sex-hormone molecule, thus ridding it of the power to masculinize or feminize, then administered it to women with .