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