Widow vs Widowed - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between widow and widowed

is that widow is to make a widow (or widower) of someone; to cause the death of one's spouse while widowed is past tense of widow.

is a woman whose husband has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower.

whose spouse has died; who has become a widow or widower.

(en noun)

A woman whose husband has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower.

(informal, in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc.

* 1988', Emily Parry, " For a Bowling '''Widow , a Split Isn't Just Two Lonely Pins," ''New York Times , 27 Nov.,

I had been feeling like a bowling-alley widow , but knew he loved the game, so I suggested we join a mixed league.

An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.

(printing) A single line of type that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column.

A venomous spider, of the genus Latrodectus .

* black widow * golf widow * grass widow * widow bird * widow-maker

(en verb)

To make a widow (or widower) of someone; to cause the death of one's spouse.

(head)

(of a previously married person) whose spouse has died; who has become a widow or widower.

"I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride" (from the song " (1959))

(head)

(widow)