ORPHAN

v. make into an orphan, cause to become orphan

n. child whose parents are dead

An orphan (from the Greek ορφανός) is a person (typically a child), who has lost both parents, often through death. One legal definition used in the USA is someone bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents" [1]. Common usage limits the term to children, (or the young of animals) who have lost both parents. On this basis half-orphans are those with one surviving parent.
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Noun
1. a child who has lost both parents
(hypernym) child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling
2. someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
(hypernym) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
3. the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
(hypernym) line
4. a young animal without a mother
(hypernym) young, offspring
Verb
1. deprive of parents
(hypernym) deprive, strip, divest
(derivation) orphanage, orphanhood
Adjective
1. deprived of parents by death or desertion
(synonym) orphaned
(similar) unparented, parentless

(v. t.)
To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.
  

(n.)
A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.
  

(a.)
Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
  

A person who has lost one or both of his or her natural parents. - (read more on Orphan)