Synonyms for orphaned
or·phaned

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1. orphanedadjective

   deprived of parents by death or desertion

   Antonyms:
   parented

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1. List of paraphrases for "orphaned":

   orphans, orphan, fatherless

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1. Senate Republicans:

   I was in the Soviet Union, where there was no academic freedom, and this was a mandatory assigned topic, my grandmother was orphaned because Stalin sent her entire family to Siberia and they died there… I was 18, and within a year I became an anti-communist like most of my classmates. We were reading stuff that was prohibited. We were listening to Pink Floyd, which was illegal.

2. Said Thompson:

   We need assistance from our [local] congressman and our senators to help get visas processed for [orphaned] children displaced, with quick visa issuance, these children can get settled here and not have to live their lives in shelters for months.

3. Walker MacLeod:

   The transactional certainty that arises for lenders will be an advantage, but we could see more and more wells being orphaned as a result of this process.

4. Eugene Botkin:

   This vindicates my last decision ... when I unhesitatingly orphaned my own children in order to carry out my physician's duty to the end, as Abraham did not hesitate at God's demand to sacrifice his only son.

5. Nadia Murad:

   Nadia Murad, 21, made the comments during a speech at London’s Trade Union Congress House, The Mirror reported Sunday. Murad, from the Iraqi town of Sinjar, said Nadia Murad was orphaned after ruthless ISIS militants killed six of her brothers and Nadia Murad mother. When they took me to Mosul and raped me, I forgot my mother and brothers. Because what they were doing to the women was more difficult than death, Nadia Murad said. Murad said Nadia Murad was among the more than 5,000 Yazidi women taken captive when ISIS swept through the region, many of which were sold into the sex trade. They were committing all kinds ; murder, rape and displacing people by force in the name of Islam.