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De - Pt| English Dictionary: widowing | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Widow \Wid"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Widowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Widowing}.] 1. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle. Though in thus city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. --Shak. 2. To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave. The widowed isle, in mourning, Dries up her tears. --Dryden. Tress of their shriveled fruits Are widowed, dreary storms o'er all prevail. --J. Philips. Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn. --Heber. 3. To endow with a widow's right. [R.] --Shak. 4. To become, or survive as, the widow of. [Obs.] Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all. --Shak. | |
