or·phan
or·phan/ˈôrf(ə)n/
verb
make (a person or animal) an orphan.
"John was orphaned at 12"
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1. a child deprived by death of one or usually both parents; He became an orphan when his parents died in a car accident.
having no parents because they have died: The family took in three orphaned siblings. The goal of international adoption is to find a home for each orphaned ...
An orphan is someone who has lost both parents. Usually, we think of sad little children when we think of orphans, but anyone whose parents have both died ...
a child whose parents are dead: The civil war is making orphans of many children. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples a child who has no parents.
verb (used with object) · to deprive of parents or a parent through death: He was orphaned at the age of four. · Informal. to deprive of commercial sponsorship, ...
1. a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent 2. a young animal that has been deserted by or has lost its mother.
An orphan is a child whose parents have died, are unknown or have permanently abandoned them. It can also refer to a child who has lost only one parent, ...
noun plural orphans [count] : a child whose parents are dead He was left an orphan [=he became an orphan] when his parents died in a car accident.
Synonyms for ORPHANED: widowed, bereaved, bereft, distressed, suffering, upset, sad, unhappy; Antonyms of ORPHANED: legitimate.
An orphan is a child who, because of the death of a parent(s), poverty, disease, or some other circumstance, is seeking to fend or care for himself or herself ...
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