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Webster 1913 Edition


Heartbreak

Heart′breakˊ

(-brākˊ)
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Noun.
Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief.
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Definition 2024


heartbreak

heartbreak

English

Noun

heartbreak (countable and uncountable, plural heartbreaks)

  1. overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment
    • 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the title of the work):
      So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.

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