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Militaristic vs Muscularize - What's the difference?

militaristic | muscularize |

As an adjective militaristic

is using the power of the military.

As a verb muscularize is

to increase the size of the muscles.

militaristic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Using the power of the military
  • Related to the use of the military
    • ----

    muscularize

    English

    Alternative forms

    *muscularise

    Verb

    (musculariz)
  • To increase the size of the muscles.
  • * 1993 , Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder?, page 159
    • Advanced freehand exercises shape and muscularize the body in a unique way; all the world's best-built men include them in their workouts.
  • To make (something) more masculine, virile, or militaristic.
  • * 2002 , L. Dean Allen, Rise Up, O Men of God: the Men and Religion Forward Movement and Promise Keepers? , page 73
    • Perhaps the most famous example of this impulse to muscularize Christianity in the early twentieth century was evangelist Billy Sunday.