Widowing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Widow \Wid"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Widowed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Widowing}.]
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     1. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a
        husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
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              Though in thus city he
              Hath widowed and unchilded many a one,
              Which to this hour bewail the injury. --Shak.
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     2. To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything
        beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to
        bereave.
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              The widowed isle, in mourning,
              Dries up her tears.                   --Dryden.
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              Tress of their shriveled fruits
              Are widowed, dreary storms o'er all prevail. --J.
                                                    Philips.
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              Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn.
                                                    --Heber.
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     3. To endow with a widow's right. [R.] --Shak.
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     4. To become, or survive as, the widow of. [Obs.]
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              Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and
              widow
              them all.                             --Shak.
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