widow
verb/ˈwɪdəʊ/
/ˈwɪdəʊ/
be widowed
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they widow | /ˈwɪdəʊ/ /ˈwɪdəʊ/ |
| he / she / it widows | /ˈwɪdəʊz/ /ˈwɪdəʊz/ |
| past simple widowed | /ˈwɪdəʊd/ /ˈwɪdəʊd/ |
| past participle widowed | /ˈwɪdəʊd/ /ˈwɪdəʊd/ |
| -ing form widowing | /ˈwɪdəʊɪŋ/ /ˈwɪdəʊɪŋ/ |
- if somebody is widowed, their husband or wife has died
- She was widowed when she was 35.
Word OriginOld English widewe, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘be empty’; compare with Sanskrit vidh ‘be destitute’, Latin viduus ‘bereft, widowed’, and Greek ēitheos ‘unmarried man’.
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