Preposition: of

• defeat: The heartbreak of defeat was made worse by a display of crass policing by the local constabulary.

Converse of object

• suffer: Some teenagers may find their first love or suffer the heartbreak of it.

• cause: People who try to increase property prices after an offer has been accepted can cause heartbreak for the buyer.

• bring: At home the news of loved ones lost in action brought heartbreak to many families.

• understand: I know cat and animal lovers will understand the heartbreak we are feeling.

• have: In that final he had the heartbreak of missing the final black when on course for what would have been his first 147.

• experience: A family experiences the heartbreak of a broken relationship.

Adjective modifier

• much: We got so much heartbreak, we can't divide it easily.

• more: But she was to suffer more heartbreak when Powergen told her that the Meter installation on the 9 August had been canceled.

• new: The newer Heartbreak Stroll, from their Chain Gang of Love album, is also pretty damn good.

• nasty: The hard, cold, nasty heartbreak of Neuromancer added up to more than the sum of its clever set dressing.

• true: At last reality has come and she is able to express her true heartbreak for those she has lost.

Modifies a noun

• hotel: Her only release for Sun, in June 1956, Welcome To The Club echoed Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel.

• recovery: All you have to do is wishing all the best for them, heartbreak recovery or couple living, instead of beeing jealous.

• house: Moliere's Ecole des Femmes and Ecole des Maris are in repertory at the Comedie Francaise along with Shaw's Heartbreak House.

• hill: Known as the Cheshire locks, or heartbreak hill.

• song: I mean, it sounds to me like adolescent moanings and heartbreak songs that I have grown out of since puberty.

• garage: These are played out in psycho-geographical landscapes dotted with " heartbreak garages " and " forlorn, hand-crafted theme parks.

Noun used with modifier

• play-off: The relief left a packed Racecourse free to celebrate Wales ' fourth game without defeat since their Euro 2004 play-off heartbreak to Russia.

• operation: Operation Heartbreak ( 1950 ) was his only novel.