Converse of object

• have: All three returned to find they now had a new stepmother.

• become: The two eventually started dating and married in 1963; White became stepmother to Ludden's four children from a previous marriage.

Adjective modifier

• wicked: The state is not a wicked stepmother stopping us going to the ball.

• evil: The wicked witch; the evil stepmother of the fairy stories.

• new: All three returned to find they now had a new stepmother.

• young: Catherine Howard, the young stepmother of Queen Elizabeth.