Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: woe
IPA transcription: [w'oʊ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: suffering, woe
    Meaning: misery resulting from affliction
Usage examples
  • Woe be to him who breaks the Law!"
  • Like the faint cry of unassisted woe
  • Stamped with unutterable and solemn woe
  • All the way home he nursed his woe and exalted it.
  • Regarding the rest it will be said, Woe, and, alas!
  • So he cried out at the guards, saying, "Woe to you!
  • And at the cruel woe they were seized with unbearable grief.
  • He felt there was a "woe" upon him if he held his peace against the wickedness across the river.
  • Good and evil, and joy and woe, and I and thou--coloured vapours did they seem to me before creative eyes.
  • Past bows and invitations, Past interview, and vow, Past what ourselves can estimate, -- That makes the quick of woe!