widow

widow is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
2. adjective. Widowed.
3. transitive verb. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
4. transitive verb. To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
5. transitive verb. To endow with a widow's right.
6. transitive verb. To become, or survive as, the widow of.
7. noun. a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
8. verb. cause to be without a spouse

   "The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia"

Common word forms

widows, widowed, widower, widowly, widowing

Words from these letters

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