English

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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913