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