Widow (Verb)
Meaning
Cause to be without a spouse; "The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- Her husband's sudden death widowed her at the young age of twenty-five.
- The civil war widowed hundreds of women, leaving them to raise their children alone.
- The tragic accident widowed him before he turned thirty.
- The disease had been known to widow patients' spouses due to its long and grueling course of treatment.
- His untimely passing widowed his partner and left two young children without a father.