Very sincere and difficult emotional problems or stress.
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Emotional anguish; sorrow.
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Sorrow or grief; mental anguish.
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Origin of heartache
From Middle English *hertache, from Old English *heortæċe, heortece (“heartache”), equivalent to heart + ache.
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Heartache Sentence Examples
Men are heartache and more trouble than they're worth.
Nothing but heartache could come of it.
He had risen to fear, heartache, anxiety, bliss, pain and a hundred other feelings that made you beg to be able to bury your head beneath the covers and stay in the warm cocoon of sleep forever.
She certainly had seen her share of heartache, but unlike Jackson, she did believe it to be worth it.
Rather, he'd done the decent thing and spared her further heartache.