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What (who) is woe - definition
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Woe (disambiguation); WOE
woe
¦ noun literary
1. great sorrow or distress.
2. (woes) troubles.
Phrases
woe betide someone (or woe to someone) humorous a person will be in trouble if they do a specified thing.
woe is me! humorous an exclamation of sorrow or distress.
Origin
natural exclamation of lament: recorded as wa in OE and found in several Gmc languages.
Woe
·adj Woeful; sorrowful.
II. Woe ·noun A curse; a malediction.
III. Woe ·noun Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
woe
n.
Sorrow, grief, distress, tribulation, affliction, anguish, agony, torture, bitterness, misery, wretchedness, unhappiness, trouble, dole, disconsolateness, melancholy, depression, heart-ache, heavy heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, mental suffering, pain of mind.
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Woe
Woe may refer to:
- Sadness or suffering
- Woe, Ghana, a town in Ghana's Volta region
- War of Emperium, a guild war in the MMORPG Ragnarok Online
- Wings Over Europe, a combat flight simulator
- WOEID (Where On Earth IDentifier), a geolocation taxonomy used by Yahoo! web services and others
Examples of use of woe
1. Woe to the prime minister who is convicted because of doubt, and woe to us if doubt is what acquits him.
2. If it has even the slightest trace of truth to it, then woe to Israel and woe to its rule of law.
3. But as said, the woe isn‘t confined to real estate.
4. But woe to any official who would say such things.
5. "This is not a time, as Dante Alighieri said many years ago, to remain neutral. . . . To paraphrase him, woe be unto those who remain neutral." And woe be unto those who try to put lipstick on the pigheaded.