fatherless — ozdic

Collocations

1

FATHERLESS + NOUN

boys

Definitions

adj

1

Without a (living) father.

“Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring down death and the prospect of leaving his wife a young widow and his small children fatherless.

2

Without a known author or inventor.

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“Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring

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They were two fatherless boys.

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i Register

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