degender

English

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dēgenerāre.

Alternative forms

• degener (obsolete)

Verb

degender (third-person singular simple present degenders, present participle degendering, simple past and past participle degendered)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To degenerate.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.prologue:

     And if then those may any worse be red, / They into that ere long will be degendered.

Etymology 2

de- +‎ gender

Verb

degender (third-person singular simple present degenders, present participle degendering, simple past and past participle degendered)

1. (transitive) To strip of gender; to make genderless or gender-neutral.
   • 2005, R. W. Connell, Masculinities, page 232:

     It follows that a degendering strategy, an attempt to dismantle hegemonic masculinity, is unavoidable […]

See also

• ungender

References

• “degender”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• gendered