Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun widow

1 sense of widow

Sense 1
widow, widow woman -- (a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried)
       => woman, adult female -- (an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb widow

1 sense of widow

Sense 1
widow -- (cause to be without a spouse; "The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia")
       => leave, leave behind -- (be survived by after one's death; "He left six children"; "At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats")