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widowed
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widowed
(adjective)
widowed
/
ˈ
wɪdoʊd/
adjective
widowed
/
ˈ
wɪdoʊd/
adjective
Britannica Dictionary definition of WIDOWED
—
used to describe a woman whose husband has died or a man whose wife has died
her
widowed
mother/father
She
was widowed
by the war. [=her husband was killed in the war]
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