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BROKEN HEART
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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)
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)
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