widowed
Meaning of widowed
verb, past tense
- become a widow or widower; lose one's spouse through death.
he was recently widowed
she had to care for her widowed mother
Old English widewe, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘be empty’; compare with Sanskrit vidh ‘be destitute’, Latin viduus ‘bereft, widowed’, and Greek ēitheos ‘unmarried man’.
Information about widowed
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of widowed
wid-owed
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- widowed is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of widowed
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