deflower

English

Etymology

From Middle English deflouren, from Old French desflorer (modern French déflorer), from Late Latin deflōrāre. By surface analysis, de- +‎ flower.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
• (General American) IPA^(key): /diˈflaʊ.ɚ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈflaʊə(ɹ)/

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Verb

deflower (third-person singular simple present deflowers, present participle deflowering, simple past and past participle deflowered)

1. (transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.

   Synonyms: deflorate, (slang) cherry-pop

   • 1995, Harmony Korine, Kids, spoken by Telly:

     But when you deflower a girl, that's it. You did it. You were the one. No one else can ever do it.

   • 2009, Community, spoken by Jeff Winger:

     I have to admit this outfit's doing it for me; I may or may not have been deflowered by a junior rodeo champion.

2. (transitive) To deprive of flowers.
3. (transitive) To deprive of grace and beauty.

Derived terms

• defloration, deflowerment
• deflowerer
• undeflowered

Translations

to take the virginity of a woman or girl

Albanian: zhvirgjëroj (sq) Arabic: اِفْتَضَّ (iftaḍḍa), or فَضَّ (faḍḍa) + عُذْرِيّة (ʕuḏriyya) or بَكَارَة (bakāra) vel sim., تَصَرُّف m (taṣarruf) Belarusian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: обезчестявам (bg) (obezčestjavam) Catalan: desvirgar (ca), desflorar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 開苞 / 开苞 (zh) (kāibāo), 破瓜 (zh) (pòguā), 破處 / 破处 (zh) (pòchǔ) Czech: odpanit (cs) Danish: deflorere Dutch: ontmaagden (nl) Esperanto: deflori, malvirgigi Finnish: viedä neitsyys French: déflorer (fr), dépuceler (fr) Galician: desflorar (gl), desvirgar (gl) German: deflorieren (de), entjungfern (de) Greek: διακορεύω (el) (diakorévo), ξεπαρθενιάζω (el) (xepartheniázo) Hindi: कुँवारापन (kũvārāpan) or कौमार्य (hi) (kaumārya) &c. + तोड़ना (hi) (toṛnā), कौमार्य भंग करना (kaumārya bhaṅg karnā), नथ उतारना (nath utārnā), चीरा उतारना (cīrā utārnā), तसर्रुफ़ m (tasarruf) Hungarian: megbecstelenít (hu) Icelandic: afmeyja Ido: desvirgigar (io) Italian: deflorare (it), sverginare (it) Japanese: 破瓜する (ja) (はかする, haka suru) Latin: defloro, devirgino Luxembourgish: defloréieren Macedonian: обесчестува (obesčestuva) Old Tupi: mombuk, ugûyká Persian: تَصَرُّف (fa) m Polish: rozdziewiczać impf, rozdziewiczyć pf Portuguese: deflorar (pt), desvirginar (pt) Romanian: deflora (ro) Russian: лиша́ть де́вственности impf (lišátʹ dévstvennosti), лиши́ть де́вственности pf (lišítʹ dévstvennosti), дефлори́ровать (ru) impf or pf (deflorírovatʹ) (medical), растлева́ть (ru) impf (rastlevátʹ), растли́ть (ru) pf (rastlítʹ) Spanish: desflorar (es), desvirgar (es), desguabilar (es), desniñar (es) Swedish: deflorera Telugu: కన్నెరికముతీయు (kannerikamutīyu) Turkish: kızlık bozmak Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Urdu: تَصَرُّف m (tasarruf)

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