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Deflowering

//dɪˈflaʊ(w)əɹɪŋ(ɡ)// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The breaking of the hymen of a virgin.

    "Some adulterers are impelled by the cupidity of deflowering virgins, and thence also of deflowering young girls in their harmleſs age: […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of deflower form-of, gerund, participle, present

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