orphan off (English, verb)
expansion: orphan off (third-person singular simple present orphans off, present participle orphaning off, simple past and past participle orphaned off)
Senses:
glosses: To treat (a child) as an orphan, such as by sending them into foster care or adopting them out.
tags: transitive
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove all links to (something), leaving it an orphan; to render a technical item (website, function, etc.) useless by removing references that call on it.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: orphans off
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: orphaning off
tags: participle
present
form: orphaned off
tags: participle
past
form: orphaned off
tags: past