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English Dictionary: woebegone	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for woebegone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
woebegone adj worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack" Synonym(s): creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier Synonym(s): woebegone, woeful
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Woe-begone \Woe"-be*gone`\, a. [OE. wo begon. See {Woe}, and {Begone}, p. p.] Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. --Chaucer. So woe-begone was he with pains of love. --Fairfax.