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broken heart
noun
- devastating sorrow, especially from disappointment in love; heartbreak:
When you're young, you think you'll never recover from a broken heart.
Word History and Origins
Origin of broken heart1
Example Sentences
If my broken heart was to blame, it has taken its bitter time, acting stealthily.
A recent study shows a correlation between natural disasters and “broken heart syndrome.”
A French journalist named Vincent moves to Lisbon to escape the source of his broken heart, a woman named Irene.
Except Dee Dee—a 40-something New Yorker with a cynical and hopeless broken heart—has no epiphany.
But its nickname is much more evocative: Broken Heart Syndrome.
He will die of a broken heart, and will plead against me at the judgment-seat.
Witness his conception, in The Broken Heart, of a loveless marriage as tantamount to adultery.
Nor did he support exile with dignity; he languished like Cicero when doomed to a similar fate, and died of a broken heart.
His parents died within a month of each other—one by the hand of violence, the other of a broken heart.
For a moment she thought of suicide, then the reflection that it would be set down to a broken heart arrested her.
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