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deflower v. t. (past & past part. deflowered; pres. part. deflowering) (Previously also spelled deflour)

To deprive of flowers. "An earthquake... deflowering the gardens."

To take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament.

To deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to ravish; also, to seduce. "If a man had deflowered a virgin."

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Etymology of 'Deflower'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deflower" Quotes from Famous Books

... day Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower; Ne more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady and many a paramour! Gather therefore the rose 'whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age that will her pride deflower; Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time, Whilst loving thou mayst loved ...

— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin

... warmed to make but as little resistance as would be agreeable to their inclinations, dealing out their poison to both sexes, inspiring the men with wine, and other strong liquors, and the women with love; thus they were able to deflower many a virgin, and alienate the affections of many a wife by this odd stratagem; and it is difficult to say, whether it is possible for two men to live ...

— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume II • Theophilus Cibber

... danger: The girl so simple, as she often ask'd "Where they would lead her? for what cause they dragg'd her?" Cried, "She would do no more:" that she could take "Warning with beating." And because our laws Admit no virgin immature to die, The wittily and strangely cruel Macro Deliver'd her to be deflower'd and spoil'd, By the rude lust of the licentious hangman, Then to be strangled with her ...

— Sejanus: His Fall • Ben Jonson

Words linked to "Deflower" : disfigure, blemish, impair, vitiate, mate, corrupt, pair, damage, cloud, defile, ruin, copulate, mar, deface