degender

present singular third person degenders · participle present degendering · participle past degendered · past degendered · alternative degener · alternative ungender

1. intransitiveobsoleteTo degenerate.

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

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Prologue”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 184

present singular third person degenders · participle present degendering · participle past degendered · past degendered

1. transitiveTo strip of gender; to make genderless or gender-neutral.

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

   2005, R. W. Connell, Masculinities, page 232

2. transitiveTo refer to (someone) with terms that avoid mentioning their gender, such as calling a woman "they" or using "my partner" to refer to one's girlfriend.