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dower
 
Noun dower has 2 senses
  1. dowry, dowery, dower - money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
    --1 is a kind of gift
    Derived form: verb dower1
  2. dower - a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
    --2 is a kind of     life estate, estate for life
    Derived form: verb dower1
Verb dower has 1 sense
  1. endow, dower - furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered"
    --1 is one way to give, gift, present
    Derived forms: noun dower2, noun dower1, noun dowery1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
dowdily dowdiness dowding dowdy dowel dowel pin doweling dowels dower dowered dowerless dowery dowg dowiest dowitcher dowl dowland

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