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adj. - Single because of death of the spouse.

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  • Olivia, for no reason she could think of, sat in the nearest chair and wrote the word widowed on the napkin, under the name Rodriguez.
  • For years I called my widowed father every Sunday.
  • The wife who becomes widowed is a human being, entitled to live in a happy family, Arab or Israeli.
  • No longer solely reserved for the single, "lonely" now labels the widowed, divorced and even the married.
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