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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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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. Frank McGee:

    We can't say it enough : Wild animals are not pets, feeding deer habituates them to humans. They lose their fear of humans and that leads to these outcomes that are tragic for both wildlife and people. Injured and orphaned wildlife should be taken to licensed wildlife rehabilitators.

  2. Walker MacLeod:

    The transactional certainty that arises for lenders will be an advantage, but we could see more and more wells being orphaned as a result of this process.

  3. District Judge Dana Sabraw:

    The reality is there are still close to 500 parents that have not been located, many of these parents were removed from the country without their child, all of this is the result of the government's separation and then inability and failure to track and reunite, and the reality is that for every parent who is not located, there will be a permanent orphaned child, and that is 100 % the responsibility of the administration.

  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. Leon Gautier:

    War is a misery. Not all that long ago, and perhaps you find this silly, but I would think 'perhaps I killed a young lad, perhaps I orphaned children, perhaps I widowed a woman or made a mother cry', i didn't want that, I'm not a bad man. You kill a man who's done nothing to you, that's war and you do it for your country.

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