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Dower
01
a widow's legal right to part of her late husband's property
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Simple
Countable
singular
not gender specific
Plural form
dowers
Examples
She claimed her dower after her husband's death.
02
money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
to dower
01
furnish with an endowment
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
dower
3rd person singular
dowers
Present participle
dowering
Past simple
dowered
Past participle
dowered
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