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woe

/woʊ/ noun C1
  1. Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness. (countable, uncountable) · Oh, woe is me!
  2. Calamity, trouble. (countable, uncountable)
  3. A curse; a malediction. (countable, uncountable)

Plural woes

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That night came Aunt Ellen, gentle, sentimental, wrinkled, sighing, oppressed by wealth, in to Brother Anthony at his evening paper, and began discourse on the subject of lovers’ woes.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 12 · C1
Exasperated, Marilla returned to the kitchen and poured out her tale of woe to Matthew, who, between his sense of justice and his unlawful sympathy with Anne, was a miserable man.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 101 · C1
Anne was sitting at her open window, for the time forgetful of the woes of examinations and the cares of the world, as she drank in the beauty of the summer dusk, sweet-scented with flower breaths from the garden below and sibilant and rustling from the stir of poplars.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 272 · C1
What are we to do?” would they often exclaim in the bitterness of woe.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 258 · B2

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