Verb (used with object), : The presence of two large leather sofas seemed to masculinize the whole room.    From Dictionary.com. 

Skate Canada is trying to "masculinize" a sport long known for its sequin-studded costumes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Figure Skaters Through the Ages] Reference

She likes to "masculinize" overtly girly looks, like frilly dresses, by wearing flat boots, she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shoe Maven Accessorizes] Reference

(A theory: by vibrating their vocal cords to lower the sound they produce, young ladies want to "masculinize" their voices, thereby taking revenge on rampant sexism).    From Wordnik.com.  [John Brown: Like it or not: America's Dirty Little Secret] Reference

While figure skating tries to become more mainstream and looks for some love from the NFL-loving fans, while it tries to "masculinize" its sport, it shouldn't forget about athletic showmen like Johnny Weir.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

In this context, at the level of the hippocampus, it appears that males and females seem to engineer a competition between each other for the remaining available food, i.e. the females 'masculinize' to aid their competition with any resident males.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

There is however no big push to masculinize women.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIVE Blog: Chat with us during the show] Reference

The push to masculinize women occurrred in the 1970's.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIVE Blog: Chat with us during the show] Reference

To identify the self with the rational mind is, then, to masculinize the self.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminist Perspectives on the Self] Reference

But as the testes of an XY baby start churning out testosterone, the child gets a chance to masculinize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gender Limbo] Reference

They had men and women pronounce vowels which were then tweaked up or down in pitch to masculinize and feminize them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masculine Voices are Sexy, especially if you're UGLY] Reference

That degree of testosterone exposure appears to masculinize certain physiological features, such as finger-length ratios.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twins Who Test Better] Reference

"We think that these genetic differences might reduce testosterone action and under masculinize the brain during fetal development," researcher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News] Reference

Now imagine the process by which a developing embryo reads the X and Y chromosomes and uses them to masculinize or feminize a developing brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause] Reference

Among my many reactions is a gendered take: to think that it is an attempt to masculinize Japanese culture in a 20th c. nationalizing kind of way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soul of Japan] Reference

In 1988, researchers injected hormones into pregnant rhesus monkeys; the hormones seemed to masculinize the brains but not the bodies of their female babies.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Boy's Life] Reference

Literary history is not a straight line; it reflects a measure of contingency that your version does not admit, and tends to resist efforts like yours to totally masculinize it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writing and Failure (Part 2) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

In the comments, pharmacopaeia mentioned that the New Zealand salon Manscape caters to men and has to work to masculinize its services and products starting with the name, obviously.    From Wordnik.com.  [REDKEN FOR MEN: MASCULINIZING BEAUTY PRODUCTS (UPDATE) » Sociological Images] Reference

The Hurt Locker manages to re-individualize and re-masculinize and re-sexualize and re-heroicize war and the war film in a responsible way that does not ignore the horror of the phenomenon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buzzine » The Hurt Locker] Reference

I realized they provide an excellent example of how, when companies try to convince men to buy things traditionally reserved for women and thus marked feminine, they have to masculinize them.    From Wordnik.com.  [REDKEN FOR MEN: MASCULINIZING BEAUTY PRODUCTS (UPDATE) » Sociological Images] Reference

And merms, or male pseudohermaphrodites, are genetic males who don't fully masculinize in the womb, either because they don't produce the necessary hormones or because their tissues don't respond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gender Limbo] Reference

I think the overall thesis of that section is correct, in terms of Nicki taking some strides to masculinize herself as a means of expressing power, but you might be guilty of some over-analysis here.    From Wordnik.com.  [PART 3/3: Nicki Minaj Responds to LL Cool J’s “Around the Way Girl” « Gender Across Borders] Reference

Testosterone acts to masculinize most species: develops large muscles and bones; develops male genitalia and male gametes (sperm); and produces the characteristic deeper voice, hair growth (e.g. beard) of the male.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary R. Gaffney: There is Gravity in Yankee Stadium: Effects and Side Effects of Anabolic Steroids] Reference

Ange, I see no evidence in the language of my comments to suggest that I am making any effort at all “to masculinize” the history of poetics, nor do I see any evidence to suggest that I am trying to “purge” women from my discussion of this topic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writing and Failure (Part 2) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

On the most basic, most appealing social level, steampunk is a way to masculinize romance.    From Wordnik.com.  [UncleBear] Reference

I also had chest surgery, that is, liposuction which my surgeon described as "aggressive" to masculinize my chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [feminist blogs] Reference

"I'm worried that tiny amounts of this stuff, given at just the wrong time, could partly masculinize the female brain.".    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

Later, we further our training, sending our boys off to Boy Scouts to masculinize them and "to learn discipline and manly survival skills.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Greensboring® Greensboro, NC] Reference

Perhaps in an effort to create diversity, authors have tended to over masculinize the hero to the extent that we have caricatures instead of characters for heroes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary] Reference

The precise mechanism by which androgen works is not entirely clear, but in general most theorists believe that increasing androgen exposure will masculinize a fetus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference

(hyper -) masculinize the elegant kilt, but that could just be our aberrant penchant for wearing actual skirts talking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seattlest] Reference

And on the few occasions chocolate is now marketed to men for their own consumption at least in the west they desperately try to ‘masculinize’ it – the Yorkie bar ‘It’s NOT FOR GIRLS!’ campaign, anyone?.    From Wordnik.com.  [For MEN Only: Vintage Campbell’s Soup Ad » Sociological Images] Reference

They feminize men, they masculinize women.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2007] Reference

There is however no big push to masculinize women.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIVE Blog: Chat with us during the show] Reference

There is a conspiracy to de-masculinize boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [theTrumpet.com: Front Page] Reference