The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orphaning
Orphan \Or"phan\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Orphaned; p. pr. & vb.
n. Orphaning.]
To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.
--Young.
Wiktionary
orphaning
vb. (present participle of orphan English)
Usage examples of "orphaning".
Eight people aboard were idiolinguists, a sad kind of orphaning in Maya’s opinion, and it seemed to her they were more Earth-oriented than the rest, and in frequent communication with people back home.
Excluded by his orphaning from the mercantile elite, he feels he has been cheated, he has not had his due.
If she succeeded there, she was orphaning a young girl, deliberately seeing to it that a five-year-old child was without mother or father.