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woebegone

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈwəʊbɪɡɒn/Part of speech adjectiveSorted beeegnoowStarts with WEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. affected by or full of grief or woe

Word origin

From Old English wābegān (“beset by woe”), from wā (“woe”) + begān (“to beset, to surround”). Equivalent to woe + begone (past participle of bego).

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  • The 44-year-old Prokhorov, the second-richest man in Russia, is expected to assume control of the woebegone Nets within the next few weeks.
  • The woebegone children have their aspirations slowly snuffed. Grace’s artistic dreams (of animation, of course) are punctured by her isolated existence; Gilbert’s pyrophilia is smothered by religious extremism.

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