mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate
(verb) make imperfect; “nothing marred her beauty”
deflower, ruin
(verb) deprive of virginity; “This dirty old man deflowered several young girls in the village”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
deflower (third-person singular simple present deflowers, present participle deflowering, simple past and past participle deflowered)
(transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.
Synonym: deflorate
(transitive) To deprive of flowers.
(transitive) To deprive of grace and beauty.
• flowered, reflowed
Source: Wiktionary
De*flow"er, v. t. Etym: [Pref. de- + flower.]
Definition: Same as Deflour. An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens. W. Montagu. If a man had deflowered a virgin. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2025
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
