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heartache
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Word definitions for heartache in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heartache \Heart"ache`\ (-[=a]k`), n. [Cf. AS. heortece.] Sorrow; anguish of mind; mental pang. --Shak.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Being unpopular at school can cause real heartache to children of any age. ▪ Her relationship with Tyler had brought her a great deal of heartache . ▪ If she had simply called them, her parents would have been spared a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English heortece , in the sense of a physical pain; c.1600 in sense of "anguish of mind;" from heart + ache . Old English did, however, have heartsarnes "grief," literally "heart-soreness."
Usage examples of heartache.
Only Lord Diegan could imagine the cost and the heartache such care for his following had cost.
He did not share his heartache, that once, given mage-sight, he could have scried and found name for what ruffled his instincts.
Sopor Aeternus brought back tender memories of listening with Sheena as well as creating an appropriately heartaching mood.
They bore upon their countenances and in their vestments the traces of the heartaches they had undergone.
The way to avoid heartache in the next hurricane is to avoid living in cheesy cardboard subdivisions.
Yes, that calash of Miss Riedesel has rolled away, rolled away years ago, carryin' the three little girls, their Pa and Ma and all the fears, and hopes, and dreads, and joys, and heartaches of that time it has rolled on with 'em all.
And as well as presenting the dream of an ideally beautiful America in which all women were babes and all men were Marks, after doing the basic work of selling pizza and SUVs and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, beyond money management and the new ditditdit of the dotcoms, the commercials soothed America’s pain, its head pain, its gas pain, its heartache, its loneliness, the pain of babyhood and old age, of being a parent and of being a child, the pain of manhood and women’s pain, the pain of success and that of failure, the good pain of the athlete and the bad pain of the guilty, the anguish of loneliness and of ignorance, the needle-sharp torment of the cities and the dull, mad ache of the empty plains, the pain of wanting without knowing what was wanted, the agony o£ the bowling void within each watching, semiconscious self.
To see the men's heads bowed down and the captain's hand pointing into the sea when we hailed the Long-boat, a few days after, gave me as heavy a shock and as sharp a pang of heartache to bear as ever I remember suffering in all my life.
But I hadn’t seen a doctor about it, because the doctor, by law, would have had to report me to the Department of Health, and my parents would have been told about it, as though they hadn’t had enough heartaches already.
I am giving up a lot of headaches and heartaches that I never wanted to begin with!
Shenstone had ruined himself financially with all he had spent on the farm, and so “died of the heartaches which debt occasioned him.
But mostly they debate how the human animal can be induced or forced to obey this code, blandly ignoring the high probability that the heartaches and tragedies they see all around them originate in the code itself rather than failure to abide by the code.
Just thinking about the heartache she was going to cause made her stomach upset.
Even Brother Akers managed to weave it through a sermon to illustrate how Satan was always at work spreading misery and heartache around the world.