woe
pronunciation
How to pronounce woe in British English:
UK [wəʊ]
How to pronounce woe in American English:
US [woʊ]
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- Noun:
- misery resulting from affliction
- intense mournfulness
Word Origin
- woe (n.)
- late 12c., from the interjection, Old English wa!, a common exclamation of lament in many languages (compare Latin væ, Greek oa, German weh, Lettish wai, Old Irish fe, Welsh gwae, Armenian vay).
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Example
- 1. Woe in the works for hard-pressed taxpayers .
- 2. A final woe : the groupon model is open to abuse .
- 3. The tale of woe is rehearsed in more detail elsewhere in the paper ( see our briefing ) .
- 4. But more financial woe could be on the way .
- 5. When bear stearns was tottering on the edge it was argued that , as it was the leading investment bank in the mortgage business , letting it fail would spread woe from the cloisters of banking to main street .