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Muscularize vs Muscularized - What's the difference?

muscularize | muscularized |

As verbs the difference between muscularize and muscularized

is that muscularize is to increase the size of the muscles while muscularized is (muscularize).

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.

    muscularized

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (muscularize)

  • 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.