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deflowering

deflowering

9.8
The act of having sex that removes someone's virginity
  • noun
  • /dɪˈflaʊərɪŋ/
  • Offensive
translation icon : desfloración
  • I spoke about these issues when when speaking about the episode in which Dorothea allows herself to be deflowered by Don Fernando.

Examples

  • A Swedish prince gave it to her in exchange for her deflowering.

    Ocean's Eight (2018)

  • This olfactory deflowering strongly suggests sexual violence and is clearly a distant substitute for normal sexual behavior.

    Academic text (1999)

  • I'm not going to make any deflowering jokes, OK.

  • And of course her value having been, you know, deflowered or whatever, you know, term that we want to use there to maybe nice it up, nice end it up.

  • And it was in in front of statues like this that the maidens were deflowered to become advocates of the goddess.

  • "Rakes of wealth and power, of the order of Lawyer Partlow and Lord Ashbee, take great satisfaction in the deflowering of such an innocent."

    Fiction book (1990)

  • In the novel, the protagonist's deflowering occurs on a night filled with passion and confusion.

  • The artist captured the emotional turmoil surrounding her deflowering in a poignant painting.

  • The story explores themes of love and betrayal, culminating in the deflowering of the young heroine.

Synonyms

defloration
vsdeflowering
  • Offensive
9.9

To have sex with a woman for the first time and take her virginity

is broader and covers taking away any person's virginity not only women

Antonyms

virginity
  • NSFW
108 4.3

The state of never having had sex

Surface Forms

deflowering singular
deflowerings plural

Morphology

deflowering = deflower (opaque) = de + flower + ing

Although formed from 'de-' + 'flower', the sexualized sense 'to take someone's virginity' is a conventionalized metaphor not directly derivable by learners from the component meanings.

Etymology

Deflowering can be remembered this way: people once used flower as a picture for 'virginity', so to deflower someone was to take that first sexual innocence. A helpful way to remember this is to imagine removing a single delicate flower at an important life moment.