a woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.-widowed.-to reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.-to deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.-to endow with a widow's right.-to become, or survive as, the widow of.