Degero, dégeris. pen. cor. degessi, degestum, degérere. Plautus. To carie away and waste.Degerere laborem alicui.To ease one of his labour.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dē-gĕro, ĕre, v. a., to carry away, carry off (rare): de vinea sarmenta, Cato R. R. 37, 5 Schneid. N. cr.: mea ornamenta ad meretrices, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 53: aurum meum tuae amicae, id. ib. 5, 1, 41 (Plin. 12, 27, 60, 131, the true reading is digeritur).