Chapter Whosesoever to Widow of W by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

2. To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.

The widowed isle, in mourning,
Dries up her tears.

Dryden.

Tress of their shriveled fruits
Are widowed, dreary storms o'er all prevail.

J. Philips.

Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn.

Heber.

3. To endow with a widow's right. [R.] Shak.

4. To become, or survive as, the widow of. [Obs.]

Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow
them all.

Shak.