verb🔗ShareTo deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)"What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?"familyhumanpersonChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to."Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree."computingtechnologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective🔗ShareAbandoned."I found an orphaned project, half-completed before its author quit, and decided to finish it."familyhumanpersonChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
