verb

• Deprive (a woman) of her virginity.

  ‘So, she devises an incredibly complex scheme that requires Phillippe to deflower many virgins.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The count plots to exercise his droit de seigneur, the right of titled men to deflower the brides of lesser folk.’
  • ‘This was a bride snatching, so that one man could marry and deflower a girl on her wedding day mainly to anger a rival.’
  • ‘Gerard Butler is never a threat in any way, except maybe as a candidate to deflower Christine.’

  Synonyms

  rape, sexual assault, indecent assault, sexual abuse, abuse, molestation, molesting, interference, interfering, seduction, seducing