orphan
noun
a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
had orphaned
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past perfectof orphan.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“The world had orphaned us both,” Alma observes, and she invites Bordelon into her house.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
Unicef said Tuesday that the Ebola epidemic had orphaned at least 3,700 children in the region.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2014
This grieved her deeply, and her father's sending her to Paris without a chaperon of any kind and writing her never a word of tenderness but only and always reproaches, had orphaned her indeed.
From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Hughes, Rupert
