# orphaned

Pronunciation: US say "OR-fuhnd" /ˈɔɹfənd/; UK say "AW-fuhnd" /ˈɔːfənd/

## Adjective

1. Having become an orphan through the death of one's parents.
   - Simple: Left with no parents because they have died.
   - _The charity finds homes for orphaned children whose parents died in the epidemic._
   - _The war left thousands of children orphaned and homeless._
3. Abandoned by the person or people who had been responsible for it.
   - Simple: Given up and left behind by whoever was in charge of it.
   - _Volunteers took over the orphaned software library after its maintainer stepped away._
   - _Regulators are trying to plug thousands of orphaned oil wells whose owners went bankrupt._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of orphan. — simple past and past participle of orphan
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of orphan. Use it for something already done, or after has, had, or was.
   - _He was orphaned at twelve and raised by his grandparents._
   - _Deleting the parent record orphaned every row that pointed to it._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/orphaned (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).