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单词 widowed
释义
widowedwid‧owed /ˈwɪdəʊd $ -doʊd/ verb Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • As to age, she's forty-four, and she's been married and widowed and has brought up three bains.
  • I'd been widowed a year when we met.
  • If a woman without sons is widowed, she is the ultimate casualty.
  • In contrast 50 percent of women aged 65 + and 18 percent of men are widowed.
  • Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
  • Personally, I appreciated the importance of being able to empathize with a newly widowed or soon-to-be-divorced client.
  • She may have been married, widowed or divorced.
  • The widowed Kouao had three grown-up boys of her own and an adopted daughter.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
having a husband or wife: · How long have you been married?· a married couple
not married: · Chris is 45 and still single.· single mothers
having formally agreed to marry someone in the future: · Jane and Pete have just got engaged.· engaged couples
to share a home and have a sexual relationship, but not be married: · More and more couples are choosing to live together rather than get married.
no longer living with your husband or wife because of problems in your marriage: · I think Joan and Brian are separated now.
no longer married because you have legally ended your marriage: · My parents got divorced when I was 10.· divorced men
no longer married because your husband or wife has died: · He’s a widowed father of two.
Longman Language Activatorwhen one of your relatives or friends dies
if you lose a close relative or friend, they die: · Sharon lost her mother when she was very young.· It's a terrible thing to lose someone very close to you.
if you are widowed , your husband or wife dies: · Tony's mother was widowed at the age of 23 with three children.
if you are orphaned , both your parents die when you are still young: · Ben was orphaned at an early age and raised by an uncle.
formal used about someone whose close relative or friend has died: · The bereaved mother stood by her son's grave.· Bereaved family members are demanding more information about the plane crash.
not married any more
someone who is divorced has officially ended their marriage: · He's living with a divorced woman and her two children.· Yes, she used to be married, but she's been divorced since last year.get divorced (=officially end your marriage): · They got divorced only three years after they got married.
the man or woman that you used to be married to before getting divorced: · His ex-wife never lets him see the children.
if a husband and wife are separated , they do not live with each other, because they are not happy together any more, but they are not divorced: · We're not divorced, but we've been separated for six months.
a woman whose husband has died and who has not married again: · Mr Jarvis died yesterday, leaving a widow and four children.· Mourners at the funeral included Paul's widow, Sarah Jones.
a man whose wife has died and who has not married again: · Mr Wright, a widower with one son and two grandchildren, made his first parachute jump yesterday.
if someone is widowed , their wife or husband has died and they have not married again: · Joyce had come to Tucson to live with a recently widowed aunt.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Carla was widowed very young.
  • He's gone to stay with his widowed mother in Florida.
  • Tony's mother was widowed at the age of 23 with three children.
  • Carla Miller was widowed when a tractor rolled over on her husband.
  • If a woman without sons is widowed, she is the ultimate casualty.
  • In contrast 50 percent of women aged 65 + and 18 percent of men are widowed.
  • Just under 4 in 10 women aged 65 or over are married and one half are widowed.
  • One half of all women aged 65+ are widowed, compared to just one fifth of men in this age group.
  • Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
  • This was the shop which had been run by Eb's Aunt Emily ever since she was widowed, thirty years earlier.
 be widowed if someone is widowed, their husband or wife dies:  She was widowed at the age of 25.► see thesaurus at married—widowed adjective:  his widowed mother
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