Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair.
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- adjective idiomatic Alternative spelling of
brokenhearted . Feelingdepressed ,despondent , orhopeless , especially overlosing alove .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective full of sorrow
Etymologies
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Examples
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He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their wounds.
Rabbi Avi Weiss: Offering Thanks: Reflections On 25 Years Of A Gift of Life Rabbi Avi Weiss 2011
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He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their wounds.
Rabbi Avi Weiss: Offering Thanks: Reflections On 25 Years Of A Gift of Life Rabbi Avi Weiss 2011
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This made us cry: I hope that readers know that I am writing to them from that place in myself that is both broken-hearted and beautiful to that same place in them; that I'm hoping that we meet and are transformed in some way together.
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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Like them, Jesus loved so much he was willing to live and die for the poor, the broken-hearted, the castaway, and all the rest of us schmucks.
Greg Garrett: This, That, And The Other Jesus Greg Garrett 2011
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Like them, Jesus loved so much he was willing to live and die for the poor, the broken-hearted, the castaway, and all the rest of us schmucks.
Greg Garrett: This, That, And The Other Jesus Greg Garrett 2011
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And I was nineteen, and sun-warm Hawaiian in spite of my three-quarters haole blood, and I knew nothing save my girlhood splendours at Kilohana and my Honolulu education at the Royal Chief School, and my grey husband at Nahala with his grey preachments and practices of sobriety and thrift, and those two childless uncles of mine, the one with far, cold vision, the other the broken-hearted, for-ever-dreaming lover of a dead princess.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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After his much-publicized breakdown last spring, Mr. Sheen was replaced by Ashton Kutcher center who plays newly created character Walden Schmidt, a broken-hearted Internet billionaire.
The Short List 2011
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Maybe we would be too young to be really in love, but we would like each other so much that it would seem that way, and when we eventually broke up to go our separate ways, maybe for college, we would be broken-hearted, at least for a while.
Family Storms 2011
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She wasn't broken-hearted about the groom, but she was broken-hearted about her beautiful, amazing dress not being worn.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 2010
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"Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye," Taylor's broken-hearted Angela laments to Clift's George Eastman with whom she is still hopelessly in love.
Penelope Andrew: HuffPost Review: Oscar-Winner In a Better World, and Remembering Elizabeth Taylor Penelope Andrew 2011
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