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Heartbreaking

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective

1
That causes great grief, anguish or distress.
"Things went well with the clearing on Friday, but by Saturday, February 3, a 70 m.p.h. blizzard set in, and against such heartbreaking conditions, although an effort was made with the plough to keep open the sections cleared on the previous day, ground was gradually lost, [...]."

Adjective

1
causing or marked by grief or anguish wordnet

Noun

1
The breaking of a heart; great grief, anguish or distress.
"One could argue that Eliot's "great heartbreakings" were the overt physical signs of the inner psychological transformations achieved through brainwashing, cultural attack, and epidemic mortality."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From heart + breaking.

Etymology 2

From heart + breaking.

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