Definition of "woe"
woe
noun
countable and uncountable, plural woes
Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
Quotations
The Friday night rains which wrecked families in Kurabarahalli saw all the three major political parties making a beeline to express their condolences, listen to their woes and provide compensation in the hope of garnering their goodwill ahead of the 2018 assembly elections.
October 14 2017, Sandeep Moudgal, The Times of India, Rains devastate families, political parties make beeline to apply balm on open wounds
Quotations
And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Revelation 8:13
A curse; a malediction.
Quotations
adjective
comparative more woe, superlative most woe
interjection
(archaic) An exclamation of grief.