Sekirov Dictionary

woebegone

UK /ˈwəʊbɪɡɒn/US /ˈwoʊbiˌɡɔn/

adjective 3
noun 1
forms 3

adjective3

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Of a person: deeply affected or overwhelmed by suffering or trouble, and so filled with woe (“great distress or sadness”); (loosely) forlorn, sad, unhappy.
- [M]ake an ende of mone, / For you are sicke, and she is woe begone. — 1576
•
Of a person or thing: having a distressed, miserable, or sad appearance.
- I now went down to have a look at the "port." It was the most woebegone excavation, full of mud and fishy refuse, you ever saw. — 1862
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Of a thing: in a deplorable state.
- The 44-year-old [Mikhail] Prokhorov, the second-richest man in Russia, is expected to assume control of the woebegone Nets within the next few weeks. — 2010

noun1

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A person who is deeply affected or overwhelmed by suffering or trouble, and so filled with woe.
- Two woebegones they chanced to meet, / With hungry eyes, as if despair / Like an old spider sat in there / And slow thereof did drink and eat; […] — 1917

forms

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