noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
black widow
war widow
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Pepita had been trying to remember the events that led up to being bitten by the black widow spider.
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But let us remember that only six decades have passed since black widows threatened to conquer the earth.
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Scientists are now making use of the black widow spider's venom to help them understand disabling human diseases.
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He was built like a black widow spider, his chest and shoulders so large that it diminished his limbs.
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The black widow spider and its relatives produce neurotoxins.
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There are stories about the ant and a black widow spider.
elderly
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There was no elderly widow to con, but there was an empty house, and one he knew well.
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He was such a handsome person. Elderly widows were always asking her about him.
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The single person discount will not apply equally to the rich millionaire and to the poor elderly widow .
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The government took the land immediately and gave the elderly widow 90 days to get out of her house.
married
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This includes married women and widows with reduced contribution liability.
old
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Often they say, they had no friends until they become old women, widows .
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The excused forewoman is a 55-year-\#old widow who works as a supervisor for the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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And they say the sixty-two year old widow died for the sake of a few pounds.
poor
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We have put her among the children until she learns. 3 I am a poor widow .
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It seems to arise out of overwhelming compassion for the poor widow who was in the process of burying her only son.
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The single person discount will not apply equally to the rich millionaire and to the poor elderly widow .
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I am a poor widow , the victim of cannibals.
wealthy
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Eberling was convicted in 1989 of the unrelated murder of a wealthy widow and is currently serving a prison term in Ohio.
young
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Prior to April 1988, younger widows from the age of 50 qualified for the full rate.
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This young widow had seven sons.
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Often the horror and humility of her widowhood would drive a young widow to follow her husband on his burning pyre.
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His childhood friend has rescued the beautiful young widow , and the two of them will live happily ever after.
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Age-related widows' pension is for younger widows, who do not qualify for full rate.
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A massive collection was made for Charlton's young widow and four children.
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The young widow came back to the ballroom to make one last request.
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Who could say if Margaret was not better off a young widow , able yet to make a humbler and happier match?
■ NOUN
spider
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Pepita had been trying to remember the events that led up to being bitten by the black widow spider .
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He was built like a black widow spider , his chest and shoulders so large that it diminished his limbs.
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There are stories about the ant and a black widow spider .
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The black widow spider and its relatives produce neurotoxins.
war
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They were war widows or refugee country girls or serving officers of the Viet Cong.
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Zuwaya saw no harm in government support for the sick, old and others unable to support themselves - such as war widows .
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It has also been applied to the special Ministry of Defence payment to the pre-1973 war widows .
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They would still not have equal treatment with Falklands war widows , who receive about £124 a week.
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She was a war widow and worked round the clock in her efforts to bring up a young family by herself.
■ VERB
become
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A position of some influence, even if you were to become a widow .
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She instead became a lonely bereaved widow .
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Often they say, they had no friends until they become old women, widows .
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When a wife becomes a widow , for example, there will be all sorts of social changes.
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Rose became a widow two years ago and by chance met Reg while shopping.
die
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He had designed the first chemist shops, and died bequeathing his widow and three daughters some valuable property in Nottingham.
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When he died , the widow came down here once to sign the papers when the place was sold.
leave
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Her husband died in 1720, leaving her a childless widow in comfortable circumstances.
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Her husband, who had become increasingly dear to her, left her a widow after forty years of marriage.
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He leaves a widow , Trish, and sons Ben, Zac and Tom.
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Mr Walker leaves a widow , Mary, and two children, Donald and Jane.
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But he died rather young, leaving his widow to carry on the farm and bring up their three children.
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He left a widow and four young sons.
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He left a widow and four sons aged from nine years to eight months.
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He left a widow , Elizabeth, and three children, all under age.
live
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Mrs Smith is a widow living in a small council flat in Bermondsey.
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His widow , Cheryl, lives in Houston.
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Annie Westoby, twenty years a widow , has lived in the same house for over forty years.
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Mrs B is an 86-year-old widow , living alone in a two-apartment flat.
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Mrs Archer, who had long been a widow , lived with her son and daughter in West Twenty-eighth Street.
marry
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One of them, Merovech, attempted to outwit his stepmother by marrying Sigibert's widow , Brunhild.
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One measure he took to bolster his position was to marry Sigibert's widow , Brunhild.
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He'd married the widow and been a father to Rakovsky's children.
pay
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Full-rate widows' pension is paid to widows between the ages of 55 and 59 inclusive.
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I've been told he paid the widow money.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(widow's) weeds
be widowed
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Carla was widowed very young.
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He's gone to stay with his widowed mother in Florida.
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Tony's mother was widowed at the age of 23 with three children.
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Carla Miller was widowed when a tractor rolled over on her husband.
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If a woman without sons is widowed , she is the ultimate casualty.
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In contrast 50 percent of women aged 65 + and 18 percent of men are widowed .
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Just under 4 in 10 women aged 65 or over are married and one half are widowed .
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One half of all women aged 65+ are widowed , compared to just one fifth of men in this age group.
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Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
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This was the shop which had been run by Eb's Aunt Emily ever since she was widowed , thirty years earlier.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mourners at the funeral included Paul's widow , Sarah Jones.
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Mr Jarvis died yesterday, leaving a widow and four children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A massive collection was made for Charlton's young widow and four children.
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Also patron of divorce, infidelity, and widows.
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Conservative Members asked, why just a pensioner - what about a single widow ?
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He left a widow and three children.
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She is a petite, trim widow of 73 who dresses stylishly and lives in a beautifully decorated Longwood home.
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She is the widow of the head of the clan and so hers is the largest house.
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The excused forewoman is a 55-year-old widow who works as a supervisor for the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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The grieving widow was rich and powerful enough to hound anyone through the courts.