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- adjective of a previously married person whose
spouse has died; who has become awidow orwidower . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
widow .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective single because of death of the spouse
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Examples
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Olivia, for no reason she could think of, sat in the nearest chair and wrote the word widowed on the napkin, under the name Rodriguez.
Starting from Scratch Susan Gilbert-Collins 2010
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My wife's granddad, a three-war Air Force officer, flew Lightings against the Zeroes and Bettys in the Aleutians and New Guinea before he was shipped back to run a flight school in Texas and met her grandmother, recently widowed from the love of her life by bombing runs over Japan.
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My mother died at 75, again widowed, bitter, and crippled by arthritis.
A Discussion with Irmgard Hunt, author of On Hitler's Mountain 2010
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For years I called my widowed father every Sunday.
Aspects of Silence Beate Sigriddaughter 2010
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The wife who becomes widowed is a human being, entitled to live in a happy family, Arab or Israeli.
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Given the missteps by Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- who called a widowed retiree a bigot in off-camera remarks last week -- Labor in particular is bracing for what may be its biggest defeat since 1983, when Margaret Thatcher won a second term and the party was exiled from No. 10 Downing Street for another 14 years.
British elections could deliver a blow to two-party rule 2010
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No longer solely reserved for the single, "lonely" now labels the widowed, divorced and even the married.
S. Isabelle Harounian: The Case For Loneliness S. Isabelle Harounian 2010
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No longer solely reserved for the single, "lonely" now labels the widowed, divorced and even the married.
S. Isabelle Harounian: The Case For Loneliness S. Isabelle Harounian 2010
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On Wednesday, Brown -- who stumbled badly on the campaign trail last week after he was caught calling a widowed retiree a bigot -- was trying to shore up his campaign.
On eve of British election, shake-up in Parliament is forecast 2010
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Given the missteps by Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- who called a widowed retiree a bigot in off-camera remarks last week -- Labor in particular is bracing for what may be its biggest defeat since 1983, when Margaret Thatcher won a second term and the party was exiled from No. 10 Downing Street for another 14 years.
British elections could deliver a blow to two-party rule 2010
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