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DEFLORATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("defloration" is a kind of...):
carnal knowledge; coition; coitus; copulation; intercourse; relation; sex act; sexual congress; sexual intercourse; sexual relation (sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur)
Derivation:
deflower (deprive of virginity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("defloration" is a kind of...):
damage; harm; hurt; scathe (the act of damaging something or someone)
Derivation:
deflower (make imperfect)
deflower (deprive of virginity)
