- Bereave - Bereaved wife - Bereaved woman - A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not
married again; one living bereaved of a husband. - Widowed. - To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a
husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle. - To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything
beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.