WIDOWED Definition & Meaning

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widowed

[wid-ohd]

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adjective

having lost one’s spouse to death.
The author has created a believably deluded narrator, a popular high school senior who plays football and lives with his widowed father.

noun

Usually the widowed a person or persons who have lost a spouse to death.
How do we offer strength and support to the aging, the widowed, the displaced, and others whose lives have been disrupted?

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of widow.

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

unwidowed adjective

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of widowed¹

widow ( def. ) + -ed ³ ( def. )

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Set in the idyllic island of Naxos, Greece, Pochoda refashions Euripides’ “The Bacchae” to weave a hypnotic tale of recently widowed Lena, breaking free from the strictures imposed by the men in her life.

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"I wasn't treated even remotely near a vulnerable human being. I was quite vulnerable because there I was, on my own, newly widowed."

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Aldous Huxley, recently widowed and struggling with his grief, came to stay with Matthew and Ellen.

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"I don't know anyone else my age that is married... never mind married and widowed."

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Throughout the trip, he was deeply moved by the sufferings he witnessed in Gaza and focused on providing aid to the widowed and elderly, he added.

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