deflower

Other forms of deflower

past tense

deflowerred·

present participle

deflowerring·

third person

deflowers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deflower

What does deflower mean?

deflower means "deprive of virginity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deflower?

deflower has 3 syllables: de-flo-wer. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for deflower?

Close synonyms include ruin, mar, impair, spoil, vitiate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deflower a common word?

deflower is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.