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Meaning of 'widow' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Widow [ a.]
- Widowed.
2 . Widow [ n.]
- A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
3 . Widow [ v. t.]
- To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
- To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
- To endow with a widow's right.
- To become, or survive as, the widow of.

Meaning of 'widow' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . widow [ v]
Meaning (1):
- cause to be without a spouse
Example in sentence:
  • The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia

Nearby Words:

widdy wide wide-awake widegap widely widen widened wideness widening widespread

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