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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deflower
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He tenderly can deflower a virgin, endlessly pursue a stunning model and still have time for a few other dalliances.
▪ In one scene three groupies make it their mission to deflower you.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
deflower

deflower \de*flow"er\, v. t. [Previously also spelled deflour.] [imp. & p. p. Deflowered; p. pr. & vb. n. Deflowering.] [F. d['e]florer, LL. deflorare; L. de- + flos, floris, flower. See Flower, and cf. Deflorate.]

  1. To deprive of flowers.

    An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens.
    --W. Montagu.

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

  3. To deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to ravish; also, to seduce.

    If a man had deflowered a virgin.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deflower

late 14c., "deprive (a maiden) of her virginity," also "excerpt the best parts of (a book)," from Old French desflorer (13c., Modern French déflorer) "to deflower (a garden); to take the virginity of," from Late Latin deflorare, from de- (see de-) + flos "flower" (see flora). Notion is "to strip of flowers," hence "to ravish," which is the oldest sense in English.The French Indians are said not to have deflowered any of our young women they captivated. [James Adair, "The Life of an Indian Trader," London, 1775]

Wiktionary
deflower

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

WordNet
deflower
  1. v. deprive of virginity; "This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village" [syn: ruin]

  2. make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: mar, impair, spoil, vitiate]

Usage examples of "deflower".

After making profit and gorging on exotic foods, the greatest pleasure of these compradores was to arrange to deflower twelve- or thirteen-year-old girls who had been bought in Hangchow or Soochow and who were ready to enter the brothels licensed by the French.

It was a simple enough job, requiring typing and dictation skills, no more than rudimentary intelligence, and yet it prompted her to explore all the museums and art galleries of the city and to spend most of her vacations, and almost all her money, rummaging through the abbeys and chateaus of Europe, all those tourist bins patrolled by guards who look as though they have just deflowered their own daughters.

But this terror soon vanished before the true presages of my fate, when, on the morrow, I found the whole family in tears and confusion, and heard my landlord pour forth the most bitter imprecations against the fugitive, who had deflowered his daughter, and even robbed the house.

Thereat mirth grew in them the more and they rehearsed to him his curious rite of wedlock for the disrobing and deflowering of spouses, as the priests use in Madagascar island, she to be in guise of white and saffron, her groom in white and grain, with burning of nard and tapers, on a bridebed while clerks sung kyries and the anthem UT NOVETUR SEXUS OMNIS CORPORIS MYSTERIUM till she was there unmaided.

Thereat mirth grew in them the more and they rehearsed to him his curious rite of wedlock for the disrobing and deflowering of spouses, as the priests use in Madagascar island, she to be in guise of white and saffron, her groom in white and grain, with burning of nard and tapers, on a bridebed while clerks sung kyries and the anthem Ut novetur sexus omnis corporis mysterium till she was there unmaided.

She had run away from the convent, got herself deflowered by the first man she ran across (a minstrel, she had confided to Rune, "And I don't know who was the more amazed, him or me") and discovered that she not only had a talent for the games of man and maid, she craved the contact.

Shahryar deflowered and killed a virgin a night for a thousand and one nights before he met Scheherazade.

Their moral education, their religion, their art, even their history and mythology, turned on this point: they traced their descent, for example, from a company of some two thousand virgins forcibly deflowered by an Asian despot who then transported them en masse to Scythia, bidding them remember him kindly as having relented in his vow to kill each one after raping her.

That would make me happy enough to die, since, despite all, I love you as much now as I did the night we first went to bed together, and you gently deflowered me, and we slept in each other's arms till sunrise, et.

Whether I was that daughter's father, my second sight was kindly blind to: once I'd deflowered Melanippe mere and nipped the bud of her career, she'd turned promiscuous as Sibyl, but out of self-spite: a predator with heart of flint.

Brady took her back there at midnight and, on the divan bed in the front room, deflowered her.

The influence of de Sade is also apparent in The Lustful Turk (published in 1828) about two middle-class English girls who are captured by Moorish pirates and deflowered in the Dey’s harem by the masterful Turk.

By the mid 1870s, there were enough books with titles like Chastity Deflowered, Peregrine Penis and Female Flagellants to enable a pornophile named H.

He stopped himself from saying what popped into his mind, that McCoy's deflowered virgin had apparently heard of the aphrodisiacal virtues of oysters.

Feeling something like a private detective shadowing a cheating husband, he stationed himself in the Oyster Bar where he felt sure he could see McCoy and the deflowered virgin, but they could not see him.