Deflower

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  deflower \de*flow"er\, v. t. [Previously also spelled
     {deflour}.] [imp. & p. p. {Deflowered}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Deflowering}.] [F. d['e]florer, LL. deflorare; L. de- +
     flos, floris, flower. See {Flower}, and cf. {Deflorate}.]
     1. To deprive of flowers.
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              An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens. --W.
                                                    Montagu.
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     2. To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the
        choicest ornament.
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     3. To deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to
        ravish; also, to seduce.
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              If a man had deflowered a virgin.     --Milton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deflower
       v 1: deprive of virginity; "This dirty old man deflowered several
            young girls in the village" [syn: {ruin}]
       2: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: {mar}, {impair},
           {spoil}, {vitiate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "deflower":
     abuse, adulterate, alloy, assault sexually, betray, canker,
     cheapen, coarsen, confound, contaminate, corrupt, debase, debauch,
     deceive, defile, deflorate, degenerate, degrade, denature, deprave,
     depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devalue, devastate,
     devirginate, devour, distort, force, harry, havoc, infect,
     lead astray, mislead, misuse, outrage, pervert, poison, pollute,
     possess sexually, prostitute, rape, ravage, ravish, ruin, seduce,
     soil, spoil, sully, taint, take, twist, ulcerate, violate, vitiate,
     vulgarize, warp