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broken heart

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Noun1.broken heart - devastating sorrow and despair; "he is recovering from a broken heart"; "a broken heart languishes here"
sorrow - an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement; "he tried to express his sorrow at her loss"
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Some day I'll lie down in it and for- get it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
I could not decide whether she desired the return of her husband because she loved him, or because she dreaded the tongue of scandal; and I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid to my young mind, of wounded vanity.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
We have too much reason to fear that he died of a broken heart.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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