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revirginating

revirginating is the present participle and gerund of revirginate.

Meaning of revirginate

Verb

revirginate (third-person singular simple present revirginates, present participle revirginating, simple past and past participle revirginated)

  1. (transitive) To become a virgin again.
    • Media expose/s that hail virginity as a trend; advice books that characterize it as an asset and a tool; women who "revirginate"; plastic surgeons who reconstruct hymens— virginity in such instances does at least as much to revise, resist, and evade statements about patriarchal power as it does to...2002, Differences - Volume 13, Issue 2, page 11
  2. (intransitive) To restore to virginity; to make into a virgin again.
    • The sensational London Pall Mall Gazette scandal in the eighteen-nineties brought facts to light which prove that, in civilised England, the mania for defloration led to a veritable cult, and that the demand for virgins could only be satisfied by girls being artificially revirginated three, four...1927, Bernhard Adam Bauer, Woman, a Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology and Sexual Life of Woman
  3. (broadly) To restore to an inexperienced state.
    • It's necessary for Congresspersons to revirginate themselves each election year.1985, Jacqueline Briskin, Too much too soon, page 369
  4. To restore to a pristine state; to rejuvenate.
    • Get up the paint to revirginate the ship before the ice thrusts growling towards the prow by Malice Point.1938, The Atlantic Monthly - Volume 162, page 634
  5. To make a fresh start.
    • Feelings whose flush never revirginates!1930, Thomas Sturge Moore, Mystery and Tragedy: Two Dramatic Poems, page 52

Questions about revirginating

What is revirginating the present participle and gerund of?
Revirginating is the present participle and gerund of revirginate.

Words near revirginating in the dictionary

  1. revirescent
  2. revirgin
  3. revirginate
  4. revirginated
  5. revirginates
  6. revirginating
  7. revirgination
  8. revirginations
  9. revirgined
  10. revirgining
  11. revirginization

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