Meaning & use
Deflowered
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In older or literary usage, deprived a woman of her virginity; more literally, stripped a plant of its flowers.
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The novel's dated language describes the heroine as having been deflowered before marriage.
The storm deflowered every rosebush in the garden overnight.
A note on using this word
Now considered old-fashioned and euphemistic; contemporary writing tends to avoid it in favor of more direct or neutral phrasing.
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