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de-queer

de-queer verb: to hide, diminish, or reject queerness.

Verb

de-queer (third-person singular simple present de-queers, present participle de-queering, simple past and past participle de-queered)

  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
    • 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
    Antonyms:
    re-queer

Antonyms of de-queer

Forms of de-queer

third-person singular presentde-queers
present participlede-queering
past participlede-queered
pastde-queered
alternative formdequeer

Origin of de-queer

From de- + queer.

Words formed from de-queer

Questions about de-queer

What does de-queer mean?
De-queer means to hide, diminish, or reject queerness.
What part of speech is de-queer?
De-queer is a verb.
What is the past tense of de-queer?
The past tense of de-queer is de-queered.

Words near de-queer in the dictionary

  1. de-parochializing
  2. de-puff
  3. de-puffed
  4. de-puffing
  5. de-puffs
  6. de-queer
  7. de-queered
  8. de-queering
  9. de-queers
  10. de-rank
  11. de-ranked

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