Dictionary / Vocabulary / 亡くす
なくす
to lose (through death; e.g. a wife, child)
JLPT N2 common word
私は14歳のときに、父をくも膜下出血で亡くした。
I lost my father to a subarachnoid haemorrhage when I was fourteen.
夫を亡くして以来、彼女は身を持ちくずした。
She has gone to the bad since she lost her husband.
夫を亡くした婦人は、未亡人です。
A woman whose husband has died is a widow.