Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To make gender-neutral, as by eliminating reference to gender or sex.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To degenerate.
  • To make, degenerate; cause to degenerate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To degenerate.

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Examples

  • At any rate, the idea that the great project of liberation is to degender men's bodies and personalities, is associated in the case of its founder with a result that won't appeal to too many men.

    Oz Conservative Mark Richardson 2010

  • All modern versions change that to "children of God," presumably to gender-neutralize it (degender -- a new Conservapedia word?).

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • All modern versions change that to "children of God," presumably to gender-neutralize it (degender -- a new Conservapedia word?).

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Thersites 2009

  • All modern versions change that to "children of God," presumably to gender-neutralize it (degender -- a new Conservapedia word?).

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

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