unflower

English

Etymology

un- +‎ flower

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To strip the flowers from.
    • 1946, Raymond Peckham Holden, Selected poems, page 35:
      Look where the winds unflower / The once leaf-flowered tree.
  2. (transitive) To deflower; to take the virginity of.
    • 1988, Contemporary Dramatists, page 390:
      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.
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