virilize
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy
the drugs masculinized the teenage girl
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- masculinization derivation
- masculinize verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | masculinization |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | masculinize |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |