widowed
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2.7
- adjective
- /ˈwɪdoʊd/
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- After her husband's passing, she became a widowed woman living alone in the countryside.
- a widowed mother
And it's probably because either you're widowed or you've been single for a while.
- And it's probably because either you're widowed or you've been single for a while.
- I have had two women tell me the the story of how they were widowed in a week.
- And I said, oh, I've been widowed once and divorced, man, no telling the truth.
- I only heard cautionary tales about how tragic and sad unmarried, divorced or widowed women were.
- And this was like a, a club for people who were either widowed or divorced, single parents who wanted to meet other single parents, date them.
Examples
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Like himself, his widowed father was a horseman, which meant he was an early-to-bed, early-to-rise kind of guy.
Fiction book (2001) -
My widowed mother still likes living with her sons around and insists we're all useful.
Blog text (26) -
It's not in a widowed man to bring up girls.
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How would you feel if your widowed mother started a new sexual relationship?
Academic text (2011) -
The home of my widowed grandmother is on the ground floor.
Blog text (2) -
Ray Dennis was just four years old when his widowed father sent for him to come to Cleveland.
Academic text (1996) -
Jennie's widowed mother was as excited as her daughter.
Academic text (2002) -
His father passed away while Zhang was younger than 10 years old, and his widowed mother struggled to bring up five children.
Blog text (1) -
Tereshkova's widowed mother raised her and her two siblings on wages earned in a cotton mill.
Blog text (22) -
Her mother received no pension—nothing—in her widowed state.
Fiction book (1995)
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Widowed comes from the older word widow, which once described someone who has 'lost their partner' to death, and the ending -ed shows a state or condition; so widowed means 'having lost one's spouse and not remarried'.