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[woh]

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noun

grievous distress, affliction, or trouble: His woe was almost beyond description.

an affliction: She suffered a fall, among her other woes.

interjection

an exclamation of grief, distress, or lamentation.

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English wo (interjection and noun), Old English wā (interjection) (compare wellaway); cognate with Dutch wee, German Weh, Old Norse vei, Latin vae

Synonyms
1. anguish, tribulation, trial, wretchedness, melancholy. See sorrow.

Antonyms
1. joy.

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The solution to our social and economic woes lies in new technologies, in the cutting edge.

Blaming speculators for sovereign-debt woes is misguided.

None of the three will be a solution for all the world's water woes.

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The solution to our social and economic woes lies in new technologies, in the cutting edge.

Blaming speculators for sovereign-debt woes is misguided.

None of the three will be a solution for all the world's water woes.

Myriad special interests combined with state budget woes mire two.

Thank you for reminding me of a time more pristine and void of the woes of the world.

Apple's keen on eliminating antenna woes in its products, even ones you may not even realize had antennas in the first place.

However, our pay system leaves much to be desired, even when you account for recent economic woes.

The rich world's woes have clearly hastened the shift in global economic power towards the emerging markets.

Cities across the nation are hoping to eliminate these workday woes with major.

Lately, it has been advertising clean coal as the solution to our energy woes.

Everyone from greens to government officials has hyped a hydrogen-based economy as the panacea for fossil fuel woes.

And graduate enrollments may drop even further as budget woes leave more foreign-language programs on the chopping block.

However, spending can only be one part of a solution to the complex woes of the rural areas.

Everyone in the business knows financial woes helped torpedo the first wave of atomic ambition four decades ago.

Myriad special interests combined with state budget woes mire two environmentally friendly ballot initiatives.

Diagnosing pet woes is not always a walk in the park.

But their protests declare more convincingly that the woes of capitalism aren't the only issue.

The woes of the financial services industry are partly to blame.

Shed your winter woes by heading for the nearest hills.

Solar energy is touted by some as the solution to the world's energy woes.

In his manifesto, he blames computers and technology for society's woes.

Despite the continuing financial woes of states, some departments are expanding.

They have had a surprisingly good crisis given the country's economic woes.

The optimism has been tempered of late by business woes among telecommunication companies, but the technology remains impressive.

Besides, the people could suffer the same woes if they followed that bad conduct.

Apple products in the past have had battery-related woes.

Likewise, economic woes can follow two partnered academics throughout their career.

The report gives three broad explanations for the bank's woes.

My husband tells me all the time the inmates always blame their woes on everyone else.

Somalia's wet season woes fit into a larger tapestry of shifting climates across the planet.

It's difficult for me to put value in the judgment that the recruiters are to blame for all this student's woes.

Politicians have long seen public works as a solution to economic woes.

Boroffice thinks space technology is the key to addressing such woes relatively cheaply and efficiently.

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Word Origin & History

woe

O.E. wa, a common exclamation of lament in many languages (cf. L. væ, Gk. oa, Ger. weh, Lettish wai, O.Ir. fe, Welsh gwae, Armenian vay). The noun is attested from c.1175, from the interjection.

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"There, burying each gloomy thought, each sad reflection in the hearse of dissipation, [we] lost the remembrance of our woes, our cruel misfortunes, our agonising sorrows—and graciously permitted them to glide along the stream of reviving comfort, blown by the gentle gale of new born hopes till they reposed in the bosom of oblivion—then—no! 'tis impossible! this style is too great, too sublime to be supported with proper dignity—the sublime and beautiful how charmingly blended!"

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