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