Crossword clues for widowed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Widow \Wid"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Widowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Widowing.]
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To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
Though in thus city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury.
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To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
The widowed isle, in mourning, Dries up her tears.
--Dryden.Tress of their shriveled fruits Are widowed, dreary storms o'er all prevail.
--J. Philips.Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn.
--Heber. To endow with a widow's right. [R.]
--Shak.-
To become, or survive as, the widow of. [Obs.]
Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
(context of a previously married person English) whose spouse has died; who has become a widow or widower. v
(en-past of: widow)
WordNet
adj. single because of death of the spouse
Usage examples of "widowed".
When he was murdered by Fimbria in the street outside his door, she was widowed again.
Several other girls I had known were widowed and in the country, or had become inaccessible in other ways.
A worthy man, a former missionary, of the best principles, but of a slightly jocose and good-humored habit, thought that he could piece his widowed years with the not insignificant, fraction of life left to Miss Silence, to their mutual advantage.
Kou had talked of his sister and widowed mother, but it was not till that moment that Cordelia realized Kou had edited his father from his reminiscences out of social embarrassment, not any lack of love between them.
Miss Loment had no connections in America, she possessed no other relations, except a widowed aunt, with whom she live, and it was clearly out of the question for either of the two ladies to travel across in person, to examine books, interview lawyers, deal with claims, etc.
When ma mither had been widowed for mair than a year, she took anither.
And despite her widowed status, there was something very innocent about her, almost naive.
Adult responsibility, of an altogether unwelcome kind, had already come her way, in the shape of her widowed father and the faded aunt who kept some sort of primitive life going in that flat above the surgery in Pimlico Road.
Haguefort in her late teens to tend to the children of the recently widowed duke, Rosella had been enamored of Lord Stephen.
They sit and watch their older sisters and widowed aunts snabble the most dashing bachelors while they are left with sputtering striplings.
With beaded mitre and with crozier, stalled upon his throne, widower of a widowed see, with upstiffed omophorion, with clotted hinderparts.
Astragals, writhing and hanging heere and there, making the capitall thrise so big as the bottom thereof of the columne, wherevpon was placed the Epistile or streight beame, the greatest part decayed, and many columnes widowed and depriued of their Capitels, buryed in ruine both Astragals and shafts of the columnes and their bases or feete.
It smote the bishops who had executed the royal plans, widowed the newly wed sister of the queen, and adjured the Count of Vermandois to return to his lawful wife on pain of excommunication and interdict on all his lands.
Only a few years since the widowed margravine, the aunt of the king, married the Count Hoditz.
Lettice Perine had made her come-out the same Season as Vanessa, had married within a few months of her, and was widowed the same year.