What is "widowing"

Widow \Wid"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Widowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Widowing.]

1. 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.
   --Shak.

2. 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.

3. To endow with a widow's right. [R.]
   --Shak.

4. To become, or survive as, the widow of. [Obs.]

   Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all.
   --Shak.

vb. (present participle of widow English)