orphaning

Verb

orphan (third-person singular simple present orphans, present participle orphaning, simple past and past participle orphaned)

1. (transitive) To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive).
   • What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
2. (transitive) To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.
   • When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.

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