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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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
How art thou lost! how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote!
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
How mistaken and roundabout have been our efforts to reach it by mystic passion, and monastic reverie; how they have deflowered the flesh; how little they have emancipated us!
From The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater
I beheld a landscape that reminded me of Wordsworth’s Windermere, except that the lake was broader and the hills less high, deflowered and defamed by the huddled houses of the Chautauqua settlers.
From The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 by Various
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
