Definition of widow

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Widow (v. t.) To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.

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Lone :: Lone (a.) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood..
Widowed :: Widowed (imp. & p. p.) of Wido.
Chuck-will''s-widow :: Chuck-Will's-widow (n.) A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note..
Dower :: Dower (n.) That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband..
Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.
Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank..
Widower :: Widower (n.) A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend..
Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.
Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease..
Viduity :: Viduity (n.) Widowhood.
Sequester :: Sequester (v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
Widowhood :: Widowhood (n.) The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower..
Vidual :: Vidual (a.) Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed.
Suttle :: Sutteeism (n.) The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan.
Widow-wail :: Widow-wail (n.) A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe..
Weed :: Weed (n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds..
Widwe :: Widwe (n.) A widow.
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of..
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