deflower
verb (used with object)
to deprive (a woman) of virginity.
deflowered
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past participleof deflower.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof deflower.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
deflowerverb (used with object)to deprive (a woman) of virginity.
Example Sentences
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They found a great deal of entertainment at the hotel, an enormous wooden structure, for the erection of which it seemed to them that the virgin forests of the West must have been terribly deflowered.
From An International Episode by Henry James
How art thou lost! how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote!
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
Whatsoever is fair there have they defiled and deflowered, and they wallow in our fair halls as swine strayed from the dunghill.
From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by William Morris
A rose of last October is a poor deflowered thing; but turn to the ice-bound garden-walks where, a month before, the chrysanthemum stood in autumn splendor.
From The Land of Long Ago by Eliza Calvert Hall
Jewish Law also punished this crime with death; but if a virgin was deflowered without force, the offender was obliged to pay a fine, and marry the woman.
