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unflowers

unflowers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unflower.

Meaning of unflower

Verb

unflower (third-person singular simple present unflowers, present participle unflowering, simple past and past participle unflowered)

  1. (transitive) To strip the flowers from.
    • Look where the winds unflower / The once leaf-flowered tree.1946, Raymond Peckham Holden, Selected poems, page 35
  2. (transitive) To deflower; to take the virginity of.
    • To prevent the erosion of his own authority, Basil is persuaded to re-enact his father's crime — to unflower the servant girl on her nuptial night.1988, Contemporary Dramatists, page 390

Questions about unflowers

What is unflowers the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unflowers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unflower.

Words near unflowers in the dictionary

  1. unflouted
  2. unflowed
  3. unflower
  4. unflowered
  5. unflowering
  6. unflowers
  7. unflowery
  8. unflowing
  9. unflown
  10. unfloxed
  11. unfluctuating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unflowers (page history and authors); unflower (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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