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break someone's heart

Definitions

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  • verb idiomatic To cause a person to feel grief or sadness.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody

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hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. anguish
  2. hurt
  3. pain

relateds (2)

relateds

  1. heart-breaking
  2. heartbreaker

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