degenderize

English

Alternative forms

• degenderise

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.

Antonyms

• genderize

Anagrams

• de-energized, deenergized