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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

de-queer en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + queer.

Meanings

  1. To hide, diminish, or reject queerness.
    • The queer movement is dequeered and presented as if it were entirely white, middle-class, and family-oriented. 2004, Marvin Mahan Ellison, Same-Sex Marriage?: A Christian Ethical Analysis, page 113:
    • In edition after edition, the Kamasutra has been deliberately dequeered. 2007, James McConnachie, The Book of Love: In Search of the Kamasutra, page 209:
    • Joan Acocella's polemic against this body of scholarship has had the effect of de-queering Cather for a general readership. 2007, Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History, page 74:

Forms

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de-queering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
de-queered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
de-queered Tense=Past lexicographic
dequeer alternative lexicographic
de-queers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Antonyms

re-queer

Deriveds

de-queering