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BROKEN HEART

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Devastating sorrow and despair

Example:

a broken heart languishes here

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("broken heart" is a kind of...):

sorrow (an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement)

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 Context examples: 

Then it was all true. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)