heartbreak
pronunciation
How to pronounce heartbreak in British English:
UK [ˈhɑ:tbreɪk]
How to pronounce heartbreak in American English:
US [ˈhɑrtbreɪk]
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- Noun:
- intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
Word Origin
- heartbreak (n.)
- also heart-break, "overwhelming grief or sorrow," 1570s, from heart (n.) + break (n.). Expression break (someone's) heart is from c. 1400. Related: Heartbreaking.
Example
- 1. Or forgotten . No owners means no heartbreak .
- 2. It was heartbreak in hockey yet again , so near yet so far .
- 3. It 's particularly hard to overcome the heartbreak when another woman comes into the picture because you feel out of control .
- 4. Why we hide relationship detritus in a shoe box or ship off these tokens to an exhibit of heartbreak .
- 5. It 's a touching moment , evoking the universal heartbreak of parenthood , but the movie does not stop there .