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Princeton's WordNet

  1. orphanedadjective

    deprived of parents by death or desertion

Wiktionary

  1. orphanedadjective

    Abandoned

    I found an orphaned project, half-completed before its author quit, and decided to finish it.

Wikipedia

  1. orphaned

    An orphan (from the Greek: ορφανός, romanized: orphanós) is a child whose parents have died.In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called an orphan. When referring to animals, only the mother's condition is usually relevant (i.e. if the female parent has gone, the offspring is an orphan, regardless of the father's condition).

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  1. orphaned

    Orphaned generally refers to someone or something that has lost its parent or parents, or owner, or source of support and guidance, often leaving it alone, abandoned or without necessary care and supervision. It can apply to a child whose parents have died, or it can also be used metaphorically to describe something that has been neglected, abandoned or lacks proper management; for example, orphaned projects, orphaned files in computing etc.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of orphaned in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of orphaned in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of orphaned in a Sentence

  1. Senate Republicans:

    I was in the Soviet Union, where there was no academic freedom, and this was a mandatory assigned topic, my grandmother was orphaned because Stalin sent her entire family to Siberia and they died there… I was 18, and within a year I became an anti-communist like most of my classmates. We were reading stuff that was prohibited. We were listening to Pink Floyd, which was illegal.

  2. Colleen Thompson:

    A group [ of orphaned children ] were taken by bus from Lviv [ on Monday ] straight to Austria.

  3. Liu Huizhen:

    Little Hong simply wouldn't leave, and said that Little Hong'd regret it if leaves. Little Hong says Little Hong doesn't want( to leave) even if all the money in the world is given to Little Hong, Little Hong only wants Little Hong parents, these boys are going to be orphaned, with no-one to take care of them.

  4. Eugene Botkin:

    This vindicates my last decision ... when I unhesitatingly orphaned my own children in order to carry out my physician's duty to the end, as Abraham did not hesitate at God's demand to sacrifice his only son.

  5. Said Thompson:

    We need assistance from our [local] congressman and our senators to help get visas processed for [orphaned] children displaced, with quick visa issuance, these children can get settled here and not have to live their lives in shelters for months.

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