Heart-ache

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic form of heartache. alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable

    "So Dangerfield’s little dyspepsy had like to have cured one or other of the village leeches, for ever and a day, of the heart-ache and all other aches that flesh is heir to."

Synonyms

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griefaching heartafflictionagonyagony of mindanguish

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"So Dangerfield’s little dyspepsy had like to have cured one or other of the village leeches, for ever and a day, of the heart-ache and all other aches that flesh is heir to."

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