revirginate

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To become a virgin again. transitive
    — Media expose/s that hail virginity as a trend; advice books that characterize it as an asset and a tool; women who "revirginate"; plastic surgeons who reconstruct hymens— virginity in such instances does at least as much to revise, resist, and evade statements about patriarchal power as it does to confirm them.
  2. To restore to virginity; to make into a virgin again. intransitive
    — The sensational London Pall Mall Gazette scandal in the eighteen-nineties brought facts to light which prove that, in civilised England, the mania for defloration led to a veritable cult, and that the demand for virgins could only be satisfied by girls being artificially revirginated three, four, or five times.
  3. To restore to an inexperienced state. broadly
    — It's necessary for Congresspersons to revirginate themselves each election year.
  4. To restore to a pristine state; to rejuvenate.
    — Get up the paint to revirginate the ship before the ice thrusts growling towards the prow by Malice Point.
  5. To make a fresh start.
    — Feelings whose flush never revirginates!

词形变化

revirginates present,singular,third-person revirginating participle,present revirginated participle,past revirginated past

词汇关系

衍生词
revirgination

词源

From re- + virgin + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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