orphan
órfão
definition
verb
John was orphaned at 12
make (a person or animal) an orphan.
noun
She grew up an orphan , her parents having been killed in a battle which overtook their hometown.
a child whose parents are dead.
the first line of a paragraph set as the last line of a page or column, considered undesirable.
translation of 'orphan'
verb
deixar órfão,
orfanar,
privar dos pais
adjective
órfão
example
They chose to adopt an 'orphan' - a baby girl from Russia named Brandy - and their visits to Russian orphanages moved them to explore what they could to help other abandoned children.
The little girl is an 'orphan' who lost her parents to AIDS.
Eight years later he returned to France an 'orphan' , his parents having been deported to Auschwitz by the Vichy authorities.
The boy who is an 'orphan' was orphaned when his parents died in short succession in 1992.
he was left an 'orphan' as a small boy
An adoption official has spoken about the moment when Angelina Jolie adopted an Ethiopian girl made an 'orphan' by AIDS.
an 'orphan' girl
In a magic mirror which reflects one's innermost desires, the young 'orphan' glimpses his dead parents - and his loneliness and longing is palpable.
The Earl had suggested that David pretend to be an 'orphan' whose parents had been American gentility.
She grew up an 'orphan' , her parents having been killed in a battle which overtook their hometown.
This three-month old baby escaped with a fractured wrist, but is now an 'orphan' as both parents were killed.
'orphan' chimps
He introduced her to Jamil Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi businessman working on behalf of 'orphans' and destitute young girls in the country's interior villages.
Khushi is the daughter of a family friend, who becomes part of this household after being 'orphaned' .
Consider the plight of the millions of 'orphans' left behind when AIDS strikes down their parents and other relatives.
Ill health can also be an important cause of poverty through loss of income, catastrophic health expenses, and 'orphanhood' .
During the Long First Half of the Twentieth Century, one of the most important factors in the rising age of home-leaving was declining adult mortality, which led to declining rates of 'orphanhood' .
Another male swan had its left foot hacked off, and last weekend, two cygnets were found 'orphaned' near Furze Hill.
From boyhood, he learned to keep his feelings to himself, repressing memories of his father and of the emotional impact of early 'orphanhood' .
The estimates in Figure 7 show, for example, that the estimated probability of 'orphanhood' for a twenty-year old child in 1900 was 0.0.37, meaning that slightly fewer than four percent of twenty-year-olds were orphans.
They've all been abandoned by their mothers because of the drought, or have been left 'orphaned' .
When the huge waves struck, children were 'orphaned' , homes were destroyed, businesses lost.
By the time he was a young teenager, he and his brother were 'orphaned' , alone and destitute.
A SEVEN-year-old Yorkshire child left 'orphaned' by a car crash on the Greek island of Corfu has woken from a coma.
‘We want to go home; please help us so that we are not cut up into pieces because then you would bear the guilt of 'orphaning' our children,’ said one of the hostages, speaking in an Egyptian accent.
Proper grounds for putting children into care are such things as cruelty, neglect or incapacity on the part of the parents, or because the children are 'orphans' .
He was born in York, the son of an engineer, only to leave for Australia aged 16, three years after he was 'orphaned' .
In recent years, it has seen an influx of war-displaced Cambodians, including maimed land-mine victims and 'orphans' whose parents died in the civil war.
His father finally succumbed to alcoholism, 'orphaning' the son with whom he had travelled the world.
In some wars, family reunion is an urgent priority: through the use of tracing schemes the mass 'orphanhood' in Mozambique has been largely absorbed by extended families and members of former communities or tribal groups.
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