DEFLOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deflower mean? 

• DEFLOWER (verb)
  The verb DEFLOWER has 2 senses:

1. deprive of virginity

2. make imperfect

  Familiarity information: DEFLOWER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFLOWER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they deflower    ... he / she / it deflowers   
Past simple: deflowered   
Past participle: deflowered   
-ing form: deflowering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deprive of virginity

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

deflower; ruin

Context example:

This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village

Hypernyms (to "deflower" is one way to...):

copulate; couple; mate; pair (engage in sexual intercourse)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

defloration (the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse))

defloration (an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make imperfect

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

deflower; impair; mar; spoil; vitiate

Context example:

nothing marred her beauty

Hypernyms (to "deflower" is one way to...):

damage (inflict damage upon)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deflower"):

cloud; corrupt; defile; sully; taint (place under suspicion or cast doubt upon)

blemish; deface; disfigure (mar or spoil the appearance of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

defloration (an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something)