Definition of "widowed" []

• Whose spouse has died; who has become a widow or widower. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of widow. (verb)

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• "Olivia, for no reason she could think of, sat in the nearest chair and wrote the word widowed on the napkin, under the name Rodriguez."
• "My wife's granddad, a three-war Air Force officer, flew Lightings against the Zeroes and Bettys in the Aleutians and New Guinea before he was shipped back to run a flight school in Texas and met her grandmother, recently widowed from the love of her life by bombing runs over Japan."
• "My mother died at 75, again widowed, bitter, and crippled by arthritis."