Thesaurus: widow

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1. n. A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
2. a. Widowed.
3. v. t. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
4. v. t. To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
5. v. t. To endow with a widow's right.
6. v. t. To become, or survive as, the widow of.
7. n. a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
8. v. cause to be without a spouse
9. v:3/n:97 n. a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried v. cause to be without a spouse