Found 3 items, similar to Widowing.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: widow balu, janda
English → English (WordNet) Definition: widow widow v : cause to be without a spouse; “The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia” widow n : a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried [syn: widow woman]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Widowing Widow \Wid"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Widowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Widowing.] [1913 Webster] 1. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle. [1913 Webster] Though in thus city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave. [1913 Webster] The widowed isle, in mourning, Dries up her tears. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Tress of their shriveled fruits Are widowed, dreary storms o'er all prevail. --J. Philips. [1913 Webster] Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn. --Heber. [1913 Webster] 3. To endow with a widow's right. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To become, or survive as, the widow of. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all. --Shak. [1913 Webster]