Widowed
['widəud]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Widow
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Examples
- Here, too, the bride's aunt and next relation; a widowed female of a Medusa sort, in a stoney cap, glaring petrifaction at her fellow-creatures. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They reached the cottage where Susan's widowed mother lived. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- If I ever get to heaven it won't be for being a good son to a widowed mother; I say no more. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- All his widowed mother could spare had been spent in qualifying him for his profession. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The stars came out, shedding their ineffectual glimmerings on the light-widowed earth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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