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DEFLOWER
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they deflower ... he / she / it deflowers
Past simple: deflowered
-ing form: deflowering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
nothing marred her beauty
Synonyms:
deflower; impair; mar; spoil; vitiate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Example:
This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village
Synonyms:
deflower; ruin
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
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)