Usually means: Making someone a widow, bereavement.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word widowing:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. widowing: Merriam-Webster
  2. widowing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. widowing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Widowing: Wordnik
  5. widowing: Wiktionary
  6. widowing: Dictionary.com
  7. Widowing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Widowing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. widowing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. widowing: FreeDictionary.org
  11. widowing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. widowing: Legal dictionary
  2. widowing: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. widowing: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. widowing: Idioms

(Note: See widow as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (widow)

noun:  A person whose spouse is absent:
noun:  A person who has lost a spouse and not remarried:
noun:  A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower.
noun:  (uncommon) Any person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
noun:  (by extension, informal, often humorous or sarcastic, in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a hobby, career, etc.
noun:  (card games) An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
noun:  (typography) A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
noun:  Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).
verb:  (transitive) To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To strip of anything valued.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To endow with a widow's right.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To be widow to.
▸ Also see widow


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