widowing

Verb

widow (third-person singular simple present widows, present participle widowing, simple past and past participle widowed)

1. (transitive) To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To strip of anything valued.
   • Sleep, gentle winds, as he sleeps now,
     My friend, the brother of my love.
     My Arthur! whom I shall not see
     ⁠Till all my widow’d race be run;
     ⁠Dear as the mother to the son,
     More than my brothers are to me.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto IX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
3. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a widow's right.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To be widow to.

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