degenderize

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Etymology

de- + gender + -ize

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To remove gender from.
    • 1983 December 3, Warren Blumenfeld, “Am Tikva”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 7:
      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.
    • 2003, Robert Marshall Utley, The Indian Frontier, 1846-1890, page xviii:
      I have tried to degenderize the narrative and dispose of unneeded words.

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