Dictionary entry

Woe

Pronunciation: /wəʊ/

Pronunciation

/wəʊ/

Myanmar Meaning

ထိခိုက်ခြင်း။ သည်းထန်သောသောက။ ဘေးအန္တရာယ် ၊ ဒုက္ခကြီးများ။

Definition

woe /wǝƱ/ n ( dated or fml or joc ) ၁။ [U] ပူေဆြးေသာက။ a tale of woe. ၂။ woes [pl] ဒုကၡသုကၡ။ financial/ economic woes. ❏ woe betide sb; woe to sb [ IDM ] ( fml or joc ) ဒုကၡ လွလွ ေတြ႕ပါေစ။ ႏွာေခါင္းက်ည္ေပြ႕ေတြ႕ပါေစ။ Woe betide anyone who arrives late! ❍ Woe to the person who dares to criticize her! ❏ woe is me! interj ( arch or joc ) ငါ့ႏွယ္ေနာ္။ ငါ့ႏွယ္ ျဖစ္ရေလျခင္း။

Examples

  1. ‘Even the judiciary adds to the woe by convicting the women for soliciting.’
  2. ‘A dancing cosmos and a waffle iron tells of a slight decrease in your woe.’
  3. ‘Striker Colin Alcide will be out of action for up to six weeks piling on the injury woe for York City manager Neil Thompson.’
  4. ‘The midfielder is not exactly carrying a torch for his old manager but
  5. for all the woe in his time in Scotland
  6. he says he was a fan and still is.’
  7. ‘Only
  8. and here comes the woe
  9. dear reader
  10. I did it all in the wrong order.’
  11. ‘And his Wentworth woe was the fourth time this year he had gone agonisingly close.’
  12. ‘I've never met him
  13. but I'd love to inflict some of the woe he's put upon her onto his cowardly little mind.’
  14. ‘Bogey woe on the final day cost North Yorkshire's king of swing Simon Dyson dear in the Dubai Desert Classic.’
  15. ‘And to compound the woe
  16. his father Thomas lost his battle with lung cancer.’
  17. ‘This is a woe I suffer from like no other
  18. and cannot wait to be rid of it forever.’
  19. ‘I want the extreme anti abortionist to understand the woes and difficulties.’
  20. ‘And Pakistan will set England enough conundrums without added injury woes.’
  21. ‘With the result the woes of motorists have increased as they are finding it difficult to park vehicles.’
  22. ‘He may have solved Giba and Ivan's little problem
  23. but that is only the beginning of their woes.’
  24. ‘Now finally clear of injury woes
  25. the Spaniard has been dogged by ongoing back problems.’
  26. ‘Far from being the solution to our traffic woes
  27. motorways are a large part of the problem.’
  28. ‘The extra money will do little to address the problem of Auckland's transport woes.’
  29. ‘His chances have been blighted by a catalogue of injury woes and financial difficulties.’
  30. ‘In May this year ‘Harry’ stumbled across the page via Google and posted his own woes.’
  31. ‘The problem with the Eastern Cape's financial woes is that there are just so many of them.’