Definitions for woe

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Spelling: [woh]
IPA: /woʊ/

Woe is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in woe (eow).

Definitions for woe

noun

  1. grievous distress, affliction, or trouble:
  2. an affliction:

interjection

  1. an exclamation of grief, distress, or lamentation.

Origin of woe

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

Examples for woe

woe to him who is not the keeper of his own conscience—the supporter of his own resolution!

His memoir is not the typical tell-all with tales of woe and abuse.

Did she not break into lamentation and woe that a brother should so demean himself?

A month will decide the one, perhaps: But what a duration of woe will the other be!

woe unto the politicians and parties that fail to grok this, as they will face only bigger and bigger losses in market share.

woe to you who have fallen away from the righteousness of your ancestors!

Or was it not in that hour—that solemn commune—soothed from its woe?

We could not miss the way, our driver said, and woe betide us if we did!

woe be to her if another candidate with the appeal of an ice cream truck happens to drive by.

woe unto thee good people of North Carolina for the Muslims are coming to impose Islamic law.

Word Value for woe
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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