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heartbreak Definition

heart·break (härt′brāk′)

noun

overwhelming sorrow, grief, or disappointment

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heartbreak Usage Examples

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.
heartbreak Quotes

But we, how shall we turn to little things And listen to the birds and winds and streams Made holy by their dreams, Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things?

—Gibson,Wilfred Wilson

What can I tell you, son of mine? I could tell you of heartbreak, hatred blind, I could tell of crimes that shame mankind, Of brutal wrong and deeds malign, Of rape and murder, son of mine; But I'll tell instead of brave and fine When lives of black and white entwine, And men in brotherhood combineö This would I tell you, son of mine.

—Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska

   Well since my baby left me I found a new place to dwell It's down at the end of lonely street At Heartbreak Hotel.

—Presley, Elvis Aaron