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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. worn and broken down by hard use;
- Example: "a creaky shack"
- Example: "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"
- Example: "a flea-bitten sofa"
- Example: "a run-down neighborhood"
- Example: "a woebegone old shack"
[syn: creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone]

2. affected by or full of grief or woe;
- Example: "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
[syn: woebegone, woeful]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]

         So woe-begone was he with pains of love. --Fairfax.
   [1913 Webster] Woeful


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

woebegone
    adj 1: 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" [syn: creaky, decrepit,
           derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone]
    2: affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him
       look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier [syn:
       woebegone, woeful]