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Definition: Deflower |
DeflowerVerb1. Deprive of virginity; "This dirty old men deflowered several young girls in the village". 2. Make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "deflower" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Note: Deflower \De*flow"er\, transitive verb. [Prefix de- flower.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Spanish (romper, romper el tambor). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DeflowerSynonyms: impair (v), mar (v), spoil (v), vitiate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice. |
Impurity | Verb: be impure; Adjective: intrigue; debauch, defile, seduce; abuse, violate, deflower; commit adultery;n. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Deflower |
| English words defined with "deflower": Unmaiden. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "deflower": Saophron. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But like, if you deflower a girl man, man, you're the man. No one can ever do that again (Kids; writing credit: Larry Clark; Harmony Korine) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Deflower" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Deflower" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
deflower | 46 |
deflower virgin | 18 |
deflower hymen | 6 |
bride deflower | 3 |
deflower pic | 2 |
deflower pussy | 2 |
deflower girl | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "deflower"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zhvirgjeroj, prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), përdhunoj (assault, rape, ravish, violate). (various references) | |
Arabic | النزهرة نزع الزهر عن النبات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обезчестявам (defile, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, ruin), загрозявам (defile, disfigure, uglify), лишавам от свежест, лишавам от интерес (impoverish), лишавам от девственост, изнасилвам (abuse, assault, do violence to, rape, ravish, violate), дефлорирам. (various references) | |
Czech | deflorovat, zbavit panenství. (various references) | |
Farsi | ملوث کردن (Infect, Ntaminate, Pollute, Taint), ازاله بکارت کردن از. (various references) | |
French | déflorer, défleurir. (various references) | |
German | deflorieren (deflorate, to deflower). (various references) | |
Greek | κόπτω τα άνθη, καταστρέφω (annihilate, blast, blemish, blight, decimate, deface, destroy, devastate, disrupt, do for, impair, kill, ravage, ruin, shake down, spoil, undo, wreck), διακορεύω (rape). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לחלל כבו" אש" (violate woman's honour). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szüzességétõl megfoszt. (various references) | |
Indonesian | merusak (blight, botch, corrode, deprave, detrimental, dilapidate, impair, wreck), memperkosa (rape). (various references) | |
Italian | deflorare. (various references) | |
Manx | milley (blemish, blemish as work, blur, blur as vision, botch, corrupt, corruption, debauch; marring, despoil, despoliation; thousand, disfigure, disfigurement, impair, impairment, mar, muff, murder, ruin, spoil, spoiling, tarnish), goaill ny blaaghyn jeh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eflowerday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desflorar (dishonor, dishonour), violar a virgindade. (various references) | |
Romanian | deflora (seduce), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck). (various references) | |
Russian | обрывать цветы, лишать девственности. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | deflorisati (deflorate). (various references) | |
Spanish | desflorar (deflorate, tarnish). (various references) | |
Swedish | deflorera, vanhelga (desecrate, profane, violate), fördärva (corrupt, deprave, destroy, flaw, foozle, hash, mar, perish, pervert, queer, ruin, undo, vitiate), beröva ngn eller ngt dess skönhet eller oskuld. (various references) | |
Turkish | koparmak (break, break off, cozen, cut off, deflorate, 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 (deflorate, knock off, ruin), bekâretini bozmak (deflorate), çiçeklerini yolmak (deflorate). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | обривати квіти, згвалтувати (interfere, ravish), позбавляти невинності. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | devirginavit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deflower": deflowered, deflowerer, deflowerers, deflowering, deflowers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "deflower" (pronounced 'De*flow"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: flowered, reflowed. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-l-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: lowered, roweled. | |
-2 letters: flowed, flower, folder, fowled, fowler, lewder, reflew, reflow, refold, reweld, rolfed, welder, weldor, wolfed, wolfer. | |
-3 letters: defer, dowel, dower, elder, erode, fewer, fleer, freed, lowed, lower, older, refed, refel, rewed, rowed, rowel, wedel, world. | |
-4 letters: deer, dele, delf, dere, doer, dole, dore, dree, drew, ewer, feed, feel, feod, fere, fled, flee. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-l-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: deflowers, flowerbed. | |
+2 letters: beflowered, deflowered, deflowerer, flowerbeds, furbelowed, overflowed, reflowered. | |
+3 letters: deflowerers, deflowering. | |
+4 letters: waterflooded. | |
+5 letters: foreknowledge, wonderfulness. | |
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