widowed

英 [ˈwɪdəʊd]

美 [ˈwɪdoʊd]

v.  使丧偶

过去分词：widowed　过去式：widowed　

法律

Collins.1 / BNC.11725 / COCA.14166

柯林斯词典

• V-PASSIVE 使丧偶
  If someoneis widowed, their husband or wife dies.
  1. More and more young men are widowed by cancer...
     越来越多的青年男子被癌症夺去了妻子。
  2. She was widowed in 1967...
     1967年她成了寡妇。
  3. Imogen stayed with her widowed sister.
     伊莫金和她守寡的姐姐住在一起。

英英释义

adj

• single because of death of the spouse

双语例句

• It's really not easy for a widowed mother to rear up four children.
  一个寡母要抚养4个孩子成人确实不易。
• Many women were widowed by the war.
  战争使许多妇女成为寡妇。
• He visited his widowed mother yesterday.
  他昨天去探望他守寡的母亲。
• His widowed mother brought him up. They placed the orphans with foster-parents.
  他的寡母把他抚养成人。他们为这些孤儿找到了养父养母。
• We went to stay with her widowed mother.
  我们去与她守寡的母亲住在一起。
• First, her father died, leaving her widowed mother supporting the family at the age of 38.
  第一件是，父亲去世了，留下38岁的寡母独自支撑家庭。
• Being married rather than single, divorced or widowed is strongly associated with higher self-declared happiness.
  结婚的人比单身、离异或者丧偶能感受到更多的自我幸福感。
• More and more young men are widowed by cancer
  越来越多的青年男子被癌症夺去了妻子。
• The mother was widowed and had swanned off.
  这位母亲成了寡妇，已经悠然闲逛去了。
• Honest, generous, tolerant, good-tempered, single or divorced or widowed.
  诚实，大方，宽容，好脾气，单身或者离异或者丧偶。