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deflowering

UK/dɪˈflaʊ(w)əɹɪŋ(ɡ)/

deflowering is the present participle and gerund of deflower.

Meaning of deflower

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.
    • But when you deflower a girl, that's it. You did it. You were the one. No one else can ever do it.1995, Harmony Korine, Kids, spoken by Telly
  2. (transitive) To deprive of flowers.
  3. (transitive) To deprive of grace and beauty.

Noun

deflowering (plural deflowerings)

  1. The breaking of the hymen of a virgin.
    • Some adulterers are impelled by the cupidity of deflowering virgins, and thence also of deflowering young girls in their harmleſs age: […]1794, Emanuel Swedenborg, “Of the Lust of Defloration”, in [anonymous], transl., The Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love: […] Translated from the Latin […], London: […] R. Hindmarsh, […]...
    • If a midwife testifies that the wound is old, then deflowering may have occurred prior to the husband's initial penetration of his wife.2005 Muhammad Khalid Masud et al - Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and Their Judgements

Forms of deflowering

pluraldeflowerings

Questions about deflowering

What does deflowering mean?
Deflowering means the breaking of the hymen of a virgin.
What is deflowering the present participle and gerund of?
Deflowering is the present participle and gerund of deflower.
What part of speech is deflowering?
Deflowering is a noun.
How do you pronounce deflowering?
Deflowering is pronounced /dɪˈflaʊ(w)əɹɪŋ(ɡ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of deflowering?
The plural of deflowering is deflowerings.

Words near deflowering in the dictionary

  1. deflower'd
  2. deflowered
  3. deflowerer
  4. deflowerers
  5. deflowereth
  6. deflowering
  7. deflowerings
  8. deflowerment
  9. deflowerments
  10. deflowers
  11. deflox

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deflowering (page history and authors); deflower (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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