(a) Afflicted by grief; full of woe, grieving, sad; also, aggrieved [quot. c1450]; ill-fated [quot. a1420]; ?weakened by grief [quot. c1430]
(b) expressive of grief or sadness, indicative of misery;……
(a) A state or condition of woe, distress, or wretchedness;—also pl.;
(b) an affliction, a trouble, trial;
(c) glossing OE wēa-gesīþum companions in trouble.
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(a) Deeply grieved, sorrowful, despondent; distressed, wretched [see also bigon v. 3.(b), & cp. wo n. 7a.(d)];—used with nouns and pronouns in the nom
(b) with pers. pron. in the dat. and modified……
(a) Expressing distress, misery, or grief: alas;—occas. with that clause expressing the ground of the complaint;
(b) in phrase, expressing indignation or anger: wo nou, well now, ah.
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(a) Not in accordance with what is morally right or good, wrong; perverse, misguided; also, unjust, unfair
(b) deviating from truth, false;
(c) evil, wicked, bad; also, sinful;
(d) not straight,……
(a) Misery, distress, or wretchedness; also, a state or condition of misery or distress [occas. difficult to distinguish from sense 6a.(a)]; world(es wo; winter wo, distress caused by wintry……
(a) To provide (sb.) with arms, equip (an army, a soldier, etc.) with defenses, weaponry, etc.; ppl.wepened, armed
(b) refl. to arm oneself, prepare oneself for combat;
(c) fig. to provide (sb.,……
(a) An instrument employed either offensively or defensively in combat, a device designed to injure or kill an opponent in a fight, a weapon [sometimes difficult to distinguish from (b) and vice……
(a) Used predicatively, with nouns and pronouns in the nom.: sorrowful, grieved; miserable, wretched; also, distressed, afflicted; ben (ful, so, swithe, wel, wonder) wo
(b) used predicatively, with……
