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Heartrending

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heart-rend·ing or heart·rend·ing (härtrndng)
adj.
Causing anguish or deep distress; arousing deep sympathy.
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Adj.1.heartrending - causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
heartbreaking, grievous
sorrowful - experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13


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When he told me this he put his hand to his cheek as though he still felt the smart of the blow, and in his eyes was a pain that was heartrending and an amazement that was ludicrous.
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Once only he gave Norine a sorrowful, heartrending look; then, from lips already cold, breathed that one word, 'Theodore
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