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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Woe-be·gone a.  Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful.
    So woe-begone was he with pains of love.   --Fairfax.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

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