orphaned
/ˈɔrfənd/
adjective
- Having lost both parents through death; being a child without living parents.
- The orphaned kitten was taken in by a kind family.
- She grew up in a group home for orphaned children.
- After the accident, the orphaned siblings were cared for by their grandmother.
- Abandoned or left without support, protection, or a home.
- The orphaned puppy wandered the streets alone.
- The charity focuses on helping orphaned wildlife return to their natural habitats.
- Many orphaned refugees struggled to find shelter after the war.
- Of a project, file, or piece of software: no longer maintained, supported, or developed by its original creator or organization.
- The developer abandoned the project, leaving it orphaned on the code-sharing site.
- Users of the orphaned app received no more security updates.
- The old software became orphaned when the company went out of business.
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verb
- Past tense of orphan: to cause a child to lose both parents through death.
- A single car crash orphaned the three young siblings.
- The war orphaned thousands of children across the region.
- The disease orphaned him before his fifth birthday.