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woebegone
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Word definitions for woebegone in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a woebegone expression ▪ the woebegone coal industry EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Hepzibah looked at Carrie's woebegone face. ▪ In the bathroom, her woebegone face stared at her from the mirror.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, in expressions such as me is wo bigone "woe has beset me," from woe + begon "to beset, surround, overwhelm," from Old English began "go over, traverse; inhabit, occupy; surround, beset, overrun;" from be + go .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack" [syn: creaky , decrepit , flea-bitten , run-down ] affected ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 In a deplorable state. 2 Filled with or deeply affected by woe.
Usage examples of woebegone.
Next to her was a canvas bag, a pile of bleached conchs, and some woebegone starfish.
In the end, it must have had something to do with my sense of the torment, the agonies which drove her That legacy of pain was openly displayedin her hard-shell manner, her hipped-up weariness, her ardent courtroom spokesmanship for the likes of Wendell McGalen, the assailed and woebegone.
And to stare at that woebegone inbred face and suddenly hear a phrase in pure Yinglish knocked the breath out of every person there simultaneously.
That I must die here at your foot anon, Nought would I tell how me is woebegone.
With even four galleons, I can forget repairing and refining that woebegone collection of hulks down in the harbor and get to the holy business of crusading on enemy soil.
Temporarily bereft of his quick wit and chirpy humour, the Duke was a very woebegone Cockney sparrow indeed.
She could well imagine the sight she presented with a welter of broken reeds crowning her head, dripping strands of hair streaming down her face, and her once-crisp ruff draped around her neck like the much-bedraggled ornament of a woebegone sea nymph.
His whole life had been devoted to tank work, and although Joshua had once heard him mutter that every other sort of employment, viewed from a steeplejack's vantage, “looked like pitiful,” Cofield was himself a doddering object lesson in the curriculum of the woebegone.
Finally, the river runner's rubbery face took on its woebegone bassett hound expression again.