unflower

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verb

To strip the flowers from.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person unflowers · participle present unflowering · participle past unflowered · past unflowered

  1. transitiveTo strip the flowers from.

    Look where the winds unflower / The once leaf-flowered tree.

    1946, Raymond Peckham Holden, Selected poems, page 35
  2. transitiveTo 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

Origin

From un- + flower.

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