orphanize

English

Alternative forms

• orphanise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

orphan +‎ -ize

Verb

orphanize (third-person singular simple present orphanizes, present participle orphanizing, simple past and past participle orphanized)

1. (transitive) To orphan.
   • 1838, Alexander Campbell, William Kimbrough Pendleton, Charles Louis Loos, The Millennial Harbinger:

     But you would orphanize creation, deny that God is the Father of all spirits, and forbid needy, lost man to address him as such.

Translations

orphanize — see orphan