heartbroken
[hahrt-broh-kuh n]
- crushed with sorrow or grief.
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Origin of heartbroken
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Contemporary Examples
And when that happened several months back, the friend said, Brinsley was heartbroken.
Why do they sincerely try to restore, or preserve, the line between the two, and get heartbroken when the line fails?
Her heartbroken and horrified brother, Sam Jones, made the identification.
For now, even the tragedy that left many local people in shock and heartbroken has not brought on a lull in the fighting.
Cue damaged teenagers, heartbroken parents, and crusading lawyers who blow the whole story open.
‘Kids for Cash’: Crooked Judge, Damaged Teens, and the Perils of Zero ToleranceRonald K. Fried
February 25, 2014
Historical Examples
On the very threshold I stood arrested by that heartbroken cry of his.
The Strolling SaintRaphael Sabatini
Am I not heartbroken and wretched, without a hope or a future?
Roland CashelCharles James Lever
The Colonel was heartbroken, and the officers were savage and sullen.
Soldiers Three, Part II.Rudyard Kipling
A third time he struggled, weary, heartbroken, over that trail.
The Trail of '98Robert W. Service
Then came the reporters for copy which only this heartbroken woman could give.
Susan B. AnthonyAlma Lutz
heartbroken
- suffering from intense grief
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Word Origin and History for heartbroken
adj.
1580s, present participle of heartbreak.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper