💔 To take virginity 🌸 To remove flowers

to deflower

5 9.9

To have sex with a woman or girl who has not had sex before

verb
/dɪˈflaʊər/

Offensive

: desflorar

Has Bernice been deflowered yet?

Examples

I had never deflowered anyone before.

Fiction book (1991)
Just let us deflower you.

Tag (2018)
Anyway, thank you for deflowering me.

Margaret (2011)
She wants me... ...to deflower her.

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)
Look, lloyd's sister asked me to deflower her.

The Enchanted (1984)
I didn't mean to deflower you!

The Pirate Movie (1982)
People claim that a man will rarely marry a woman who another man has deflowered.

Academic text (1993)
Charles's first exploit after deflowering Fanny is to settle accounts with Mrs. Brown.

Academic text (1994)
l know, but tomorrow they're gonna know for sure that I'm not a virgin, and they're gonna know that you deflowered me.

Just Married (2003)
He felt a mix of emotions as he realized he would be the one to deflower her.

Synonyms

to ruin

vsto deflower

Offensive

23 9.9

Make a woman lose her virginity and damage her reputation

focuses on loss of innocence rather than moral disgrace

Antonyms

virginity

NSFW

108 4.3

The state of never having had sex

Surface Forms

deflower infinitive

deflowered past

deflowered past participle

deflowering present participle

deflowers third person singular

Morphology

deflower = flower (semi-transparent) = de + flower

The verb is formed from 'de-' + 'flower' but the sexual sense is a metaphorical extension from 'flower' to virginity, which may not be obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Deflower comes from the parts de- meaning 'remove' and flower meaning 'flower'; because a flower was seen as a sign of 'purity', to deflower someone came to mean taking away their 'virginity' or 'innocence'.