different between regender vs degender

English

Etymology

re- +? gender

Verb

regender (third-person singular simple present regenders, present participle regendering, simple past and past participle regendered)

1. To gender anew (and differently).
   1. To cause (a person) to be seen to have a (new, different) gender identity or role.
      • 1998, Kath Weston, Render Me, Gender Me (?ISBN), page 170:

        Even with the most creative attempts to regender themselves, people cannot always extricate themselves from stereotypes. Jenny could spend a lifetime attempting to refute the cultural illogic that leaves her, as an Asian-American woman, […]

   2. To cause (a thing or subject) to be gendered in a new or different way; to be associated with a new gender or with new genders.
      • 1995, L. H. Parker, L. Rennie, B. Fraser, Gender, Science and Mathematics: Shortening the Shadow (?ISBN), page 74:

        It is at moments like this that we can recognise the enormity of the task to redress gender issues in mathematics and science in schools, (i.e., to ‘regender’ them). We have seen that science itself embodies its own deep gender structures […]

      • 2002, Wendy Z. Goldman, Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia (?ISBN), page 144:

        The "small-scale planning" of the brigades replicated at the local or factory level the larger, central strategy to regender jobs, shops, and sectors.

Anagrams

• red green, red-green

English

Etymology 1

From Latin d?gener?re.

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.

See also

• ungender

References

• degender in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• gendered