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heartbreak definition

heart·break (härt′brāk′)

noun

overwhelming sorrow, grief, or disappointment

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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.

Adjective modifier

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

Modifies a noun

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

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.
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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

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