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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Suffering from or exhibiting overwhelming sorrow, grief, or disappointment.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Deeply afflicted or grieved.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Suffering from sorrow, especially after a failed romance

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

  • adjective full of sorrow

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    January 18, 2011