orbate
The English word “orbate” has 1 meaning listed here.
adjective
- Bereft (of anything); especially: fatherless or childless.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin orbātus, perfect passive participle of orbō (“to cause to be childless or parentless; to bereave”), from orbus (“bereft of parents or children”); see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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