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Deflower

Definition: Deflower

Deflower

Verb

1. 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)


Specialty Definition: Deflower

DomainDefinition

Multilingual Slang

Spanish (romper, romper el tambor). (references)

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

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Synonyms: Deflower

Synonyms: impair (v), mar (v), spoil (v), vitiate (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Deflower

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Deflower

English words defined with "deflower": Unmaiden. (references)
Specialty definitions using "deflower": Saophron. (references)

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Modern Usage: Deflower

DomainUsage

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)

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Usage Frequency: Deflower

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Deflower

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

deflower

46

deflower virgin

18

deflower hymen

6

bride deflower

3

deflower pic

2

deflower pussy

2

deflower girl

2
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Modern Translation: Deflower

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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Deflower

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

devirginavit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Deflower

Derivations

Words beginning with "deflower": deflowered, deflowerer, deflowerers, deflowering, deflowers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Deflower"

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)

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Anagrams: Deflower

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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