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Definition of Heartbreaking
1. Adjective. Causing or marked by grief or anguish. "The heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
Definition of Heartbreaking
1. a. Causing overpowering sorrow.
Definition of Heartbreaking
1. Adjective. That causes great grief, anguish or distress. ¹
2. Noun. The breaking of a heart; great grief, anguish or distress. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heartbreaking
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Heartbreaking
1. Causing overpowering sorrow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heartbreaking
Literary usage of Heartbreaking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Visit to Distressed Ireland by Richard Frederick Clarke (1883)
"A Heartbreaking SCENE.— BARBARITY OF A LANDLORD.—WOMEN AND CHILDREN THRUST OUT
TO PERISH IN THE DITCH.—ANOTHER BARBAROUS LANDLORD. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"No doubt it is a very heartbreaking thing to stand beside what we are told is
going to be the deathbed of a friend, but is it not in reality almost more ..."
3. Stories by Foreign Authors (1898)
"this war, John Joseph, and that is heartbreaking to think of ; yes heartbreaking,
although you with your warlike notions say it is not. ..."
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