degenderize

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verb

To remove gender from.

Opposite
Scrabble 23

Meanings

verbdegenderize (third-person singular simple present degenderizes, present participle degenderizing, simple past and past participle degenderized)

present singular third person degenderizes · participle present degenderizing · participle past degenderized · past degenderized · alternative degenderise

  1. transitiveTo remove gender from.

    I have tried to degenderize the narrative and dispose of unneeded words.

    2003, Robert Marshall Utley, The Indian Frontier, 1846-1890, page xviii
    1 more example

    At their religious services Am Tikva makes all attempts to de-genderize the liturgy by neutering English nouns and pronouns and, when Hebrew is used, by using both masculine and the feminine forms of the language.

    1983 December 3, Warren Blumenfeld, “Am Tikva”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 7

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APA

degenderize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/degenderize

MLA

“degenderize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/degenderize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “degenderize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/degenderize.

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