widowed

Meaning of widowed

verb, past tense
  1. 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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