The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woe \Woe\, n. [OE. wo, wa, woo, AS. w[=a], interj.; akin to D. wee, OS. & OHG. w[=e], G. weh, Icel. vei, Dan. vee, Sw. ve, Goth. wai; cf. L. vae, Gr. ?. [root]128. Cf. Wail.]
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Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took.
--Milton.[They] weep each other's woe.
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A curse; a malediction.
Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?
--South.Note: Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow. `` Woe is me! for I am undone.''
--Isa. vi. 5.O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life].
--Chaucer.Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!
--Isa. xlv. 9.Woe worth, Woe be to. See Worth, v. i.
Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant gray!
--Sir W. Scott.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 interj. 1 A falconer's call to a hawk. 2 A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa. Etymology 2
n. (obsolete spelling of woe English)
Wikipedia
Wo may refer to:
- Wo (kana), a Japanese kana
- Wolof language ISO 639-1 code
- Wa (Japan), an elder Chinese name for Japan
- Wo, the name of China Unicom's 3g network
- Wo Ding, traditionally believed to be a king of the Shang Dynasty
- Wo Jia, a king of the Shang Dynasty
- Wo Weihan (1949-2008), a Chinese scientist and entrepreneur executed for allegedly spying for Taiwan
- Wo Fat, a fictional nemesis of Steve McGarrett on the television show Hawaii 5-0
- Zhang Wo, a Chinese painter of the Yuan Dynasty
- Wo' or Uo, one of the 18 months of the Haab', a part of the Maya calendric system
WO also refer to:
- W. O. Bentley, British car designer
WO may be an acronym for:
- Walk over, a term in sports and elections
- Warrant Officer
- WebObjects, a web application platform
- Wine of Origin, a designated area for the production of South African wine
- World Airways (IATA code)
- Warhammer Online, a MMORPG
- Write-off, a term often used to describe that a vehicle is damaged beyond economic repair
ㅝ is one of the Korean hangul. The Unicode for ㅝ is U+315D.
Usage examples of "wo".
My health had scarcely returned, when I forgot all my woes and began once more to amuse myself.
She began her wretched tale, which struck me with consternation, for I could not help feeling that I was the first and final cause of this long list of woes.
Woen, Tiw, and Donar were cracked and gray, begrown with moss and toadstools.
I sighed beneath its wave to hide my woes, The rising tempest sung a funeral dirge, And on the blast a frightful yell arose.
The long imprisonment, the privations of hunger, the scourging by the elements, the death of four out of every five of our number had indeed dulled and stupefied us--bred an indifference to our own suffering and a seeming callosity to that of others, but there still burned in our hearts, and in the hearts of every one about us, a dull, sullen, smoldering fire of hate and defiance toward everything Rebel, and a lust for revenge upon those who had showered woes upon our heads.
The dreadful Nina Bergonci, who had made a madman of Count Ricla, and was the source of all my woes at Barcelona, had come to Bologna at the beginning of Lent, occupying a pleasant house which she had taken.
He ought to look upon the wretch who awakens him as a guard who deprives him of his liberty, and makes him feel his misery once more, since, awakening, he feels all his former woes.
He took Sintra from Wos hands and, with a feeling of completion, slid Kutrama into her.
Soldier had felt this history before now, of course, had known he carried a great hate in his soul, a great enmity, which had come out at times with terrible unstoppable ferocity, such as when he killed Wos kinsman, the dog-head Vau.
Soldiers dragon continued for three hundred years, grieving the only mother he had known when called to his funeral by Wos mournful barking.
Washington, but I never could make out right whether he wos a Government man or not.
Scraggs, who brought the news, said they wos all lying dead with their scalps off.
Jane thought about pointing out to Billie that she wos a girl, but knew better.
It wos a ugly warmint, but no matter for that--the creater had gained her heart.
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