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DEFLORATE

Definition: DEFLORATE

DEFLORATE

Adjective

1. Past the flowering state; having shed its pollen.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Deflorate \De*flo"rate\, adjective. [from Late Latin expression defloratus, past participle of deflorare. See Deflour.]. (references)


Frequency of Internet Keywords: DEFLORATE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

deflorate

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DEFLORATE

Language Translations for "DEFLORATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

прецъфтял (overblown). (various references)

   

German

  

deflorieren (deflower, to deflower), entjungfern (deflower). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

virágaitól megfoszt. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eflorateday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

deflorado. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отцветший (overblown). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

deflorisati (deflower), uzeti nevinost. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desflorar (deflower, tarnish). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

koparmak (break, break off, cozen, cut off, deflower, dissever, extort, pick, pick off, pluck, pry, pull off, rend, rip, rip off, Rive, rupture, snap, snap off, snatch, snatch away from, snatch from, sunder, take apart, tear, tear away, tear off, tear out, unstick, work, wring), kızlığını bozmak (deflower, knock off, ruin), bekâretini bozmak (deflower), çiçeklerini yolmak (deflower). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "DEFLORATE"

Words rhyming with "DEFLORATE" (pronounced 'De*flo"rate'): Aurate, Biquadrate, Biserrate, Borate, Caprate, Cerate, Chlorate, Circumgyrate, Cirrate, Citrate, Clathrate, Conquadrate, Cribrate, Curate, Dextrogyrate, Ferrate, Gemmiflorate, Levogyrate, Lorate, Morate, Perchlorate, Pterygoquadrate, Pyroborate, Sperate, Subquadrate, Succinurate, Sulphaurate, Urate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DEFLORATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: refloated.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-l-o-r-t"

-1 letter: deflater, deflator, faltered, foredate, freeload, reflated.

-2 letters: alerted, altered, deflate, delator, draftee, federal, feedlot, floated, floater, leotard, reflate, refloat, related, telford, treadle.

-3 letters: afreet, areole, dafter, dartle, deafer, dealer, defeat, deflea, defter, delate, derate, elated, elater, elodea, falter, fardel, feared, feater, fedora, felted, flared, florae, floret, foaled, foetal, folate, folder, leader, leafed, lefter.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-l-o-r-t"
 

+2 letters: forestalled.

 

+3 letters: overinflated, proliferated, reformulated, waterflooded.

 

+4 letters: preformulated, softheartedly, tetrafluoride.

 

+5 letters: federalization, tetrafluorides.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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