broken heart
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈbroʊkən hɑrt/
:
corazón roto
- You were getting over your broken heart.
But we tend to minimize broken hearts, and that's not right.
- But we tend to minimize broken hearts, and that's not right.
- It is made more painful when the object of the broken heart is denying the experience you had.
- And then write some Blues songs about forgetting a broken heart.
- There is nothing more painful than a broken heart.
- Because I had a genuine broken heart.
- And partly when we go into that comparing, we're in our mind and we don't have a broken mind, we have a broken heart.
- But in reality, immigration is hard, and it is complicated and it is full of terrible, terrible choices and broken hearts.
- It was, it was me proving to myself that I'm a real general, that I, I could work with a broken heart.
- And I always tell people when you're in your comparing state, you're in your mind and you don't have a broken mind, you have a broken heart.
- So there you go, Once Upon a broken heart.
Examples
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This girl will leave me with a broken heart
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Anyone who has ever suffered grief, loss, or a broken heart knows this too.
Fiction book (1997) -
Do you have anything for a broken heart?
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This is the face of a broken heart.
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If that goes, is it possible that she would die of a broken heart?
Fiction book (1991) -
"Maybe some food will help your broken heart," he said.
Fiction book (1994) -
You see, the princess died of a broken heart.
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I might have a broken heart, but I won't hold back tonight.
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I tried to be more angry than sad, but my broken heart wouldn't permit it.
Fiction book (1995) -
Anyone who has ever suffered grief, loss, or a broken heart knows this too.
Synonyms
443
2.1
Deep sadness after you lose someone or something important
229
1.0
A feeling of being unhappy
79
4.8
Strong emotional pain you feel after losing someone or when love fails
76
3.9
A very strong sadness after losing someone you love
14
4.0
A very sad feeling because of a loss or bad news
4
3.7
A very strong feeling of sadness after a great loss
1
7.7
A deep sadness and strong wish to be with a person you care about
Deep sadness after losing someone you love
A deep, painful sadness from missing someone or something
A deep feeling of sadness about a loss
Antonyms
How Heartbroken
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a feeling of deep emotional pain' is directly inferable from combining 'broken' (damaged, brought low) with 'heart' (the center of emotions): the metaphor of a 'broken' heart transparently maps physical damage to emotional hurt. This image is cross-linguistically common and conventional in English, so an average B1 learner who knows both constituents will very likely understand the MWE.
Etymology
Broken heart may come from the simple image of a real heart being cracked or broken when love is lost. That's why it now means 'deep emotional pain' or 'grief'.