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Substantiivit

1. A person whose spouse is absent:
2. A person who has lost a spouse and not remarried:
3. A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower.
4. (uncommon) Any person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
5. (by extension, informal, often humorous or sarcastic, in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a hobby, career, etc.
6. (card games) An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
7. (typography) A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
8. Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).

Verbit

1. (transitive) To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
2. (transitive, figurative) To strip of anything valued.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To endow with a widow's right.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To be widow to.