1. (n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.

2. (a.) Widowed.

3. (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

4. (v. t.) To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.

5. (v. t.) To endow with a widow's right.

6. (v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of.

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