Degenderizes

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To remove assigned gender characteristics or implications from something
2. to transform language or concepts to be gender-neutral in principle
3. to eliminate the association of roles, expectations, or traits based on gender identity

Etymology: "Degenderizes" is the third-person singular form of "degenderize," so it describes the action of removing gender from something. The verb is built from three parts: the prefix de-, meaning "removal" or "reversal," the noun "gender," and the suffix -ize, which turns a noun into a verb meaning "to make into, or to treat in a certain way." Put together, the stem means to strip gender from something. The prefix de- has a long history in English, having come through Latin and French, where it signalled taking something away, as in "decompose" or "deforest." Attaching it to "gender" follows that same pattern, and the -ize ending is the familiar one found in words like "modernize" and "standardize."