unflower

English

Etymology

From 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.