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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
heartbreak
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I still remember the heartbreak of watching my dad suffer from lung cancer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it was the scene of my first heartbreak.
▪ For some, the news carried heartbreak.
▪ For the owner, it can mean heartbreak at the loss of a family pet.
▪ He passed on heartbreak and sorrow, a legacy Bill had to work to overcome.
▪ I talk about a rash on my arm that looks like an allergic reaction but is in fact the heartbreak of psoriasis.
▪ Others might have shown some sadness, regret or even heartbreak.
▪ Whether voicing joyful exuberance or piercing heartbreak, she wrings all passion from the moment.
▪ With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heartbreak

Heartbreak \Heart"break`\ (-br[=a]k`), n. Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
heartbreak

1570s, from heart + break (n.). Related: Heartbreaking.

Wiktionary
heartbreak

n. overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment

WordNet
heartbreak

n. intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) [syn: grief, heartache, brokenheartedness]

Wikipedia
Heartbreak

Heartbreak may refer to:

  • Broken heart, a metaphorical emotional pain or suffering experienced alongside great longing or loss.
Heartbreak (Make Me a Dancer)

"Heartbreak (Make Me a Dancer)" is a song by English production duo the Freemasons and English recording artist Sophie Ellis-Bextor, released in promotion of the Freemasons' second studio album Shakedown 2, and as the lead single from Ellis-Bextor's fourth album, Make a Scene, on 22 June 2009. The song also won the 2010 OGAE Song Contest for the United Kingdom.

Heartbreak (Bert Jansch album)

Heartbreak is the fourteenth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1982.

Heartbreak (band)

Heartbreak is an Italo disco, electronic, electro, synthpop, disco duo composed of Ali Renault and Sebastian Muravchix. Their music finds its strength through a juxtapose of Renault and Muravchix's respective background in Electro and Italo disco. Using their knowledge of the inner workings of music they created a hybrid genre that "will make the world dance with tears in their eyes, like bi-polar maniacs on the brink of an ecstatic panic attack!"

Heartbreak (Shalamar album)

Heartbreak is the eighth album by American R&B group Shalamar, released in 1984 on the SOLAR label. It features a new line-up of Delisa Davis, Micki Free and Howard Hewett (Davis and Free having replaced Jeffrey Daniel and Jody Watley who had both left the group after the release of the previous album The Look).

Heartbreak peaked at #32 on the R&B chart and #90 on the Billboard chart. The single " Dancing in the Sheets" was included on the chart-topping soundtrack album of the film Footloose, while "Don't Get Stopped in Beverly Hills" featured on the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack.

Heartbreak (M'Black song)

"Heartbreak" is a 2009 melodic dance single produced, recorded and co-written by British/ Israeli musician Matt Schwartz under the guise of M'Black, and features vocals by British/ American singer, and co-writer, Nicol (AKA Nicole Dash Jones). This track is Schwartz's first US number-one single on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart, even though he has charted under different guises.

In the United Kingdom, the single was released through iTunes on March 16, 2010 with additional remixes.

Heartbreak (1931 film)

Heartbreak is a 1931 American Pre-Code war drama film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Charles Farrell, Madge Evans and Paul Cavanagh.

Usage examples of "heartbreak".

How vulnerable and susceptible she would have been to her one true friend Blackie in her heartbreak, loneliness, and despair.

The old ways your grandfolks taught you could lead to heartbreak or worse in totally different country.

All over hell and gone, bring their heartbreak right here to the Meadows family, knowing that the pain will be helped.

Thoroughbred, standardbred, and quarter-horse racing, while exciting, led to heartbreak back at the shed row.

His own heartbreak over Charles was no less than what Abigail suffered, as his later writings disclose, but he had not softened in his decision to renounce his son.

Commonwealth on Schtitt's old BMW, bound for Evangeline's Low-Temperature Confections in Newton Center, right at the bottom of what usually gets called Heartbreak Hill, Schtitt intense-faced and leaning forward like a skier, his white scarf whipping around and whipping Mario's face, in the sidecar, as Mario too leans way forward into their downhill flight, preparing to whoop when they bottom out.

Leo forced himself not to increase Joachim's grief by burdening him with his own heartbreak.

For those long months I faced my father and my helpless mother by the moment and saw their heartbreak not to mention despisal from my younger sisters--and then I had a still-born boy on the loveliest day of a beautiful spring.

Two heartbreaks at the same time seemed a bit much, at the age of sixteen!

Maria Ana wanted to be a dancer, took the train to San Francisco, and after years of strenuous work, heartbreak, and small roles in the city ballet company, she hurt her back and wound up teaching in an Arthur Murray studio.

The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.

At some point in its twisted history, Heartbreak Hotel had been what it still looked vaguely like, a little red schoolhouse, and so it had a divided four-holer outhouse, two for the boys, two for the girls.

If I had been there for you when you were a teenager, and you were first dealing with these kinds of heartbreaks and difficulties, I could have guided you, helped you through.

She was there for your first crushes and heartbreaks, your party dresses and spins at sophisticated states like anomie.

Later, at age four, each winter Lamai took her own turn being the adored one, spending the better part of a season taking out on a younger sister the heartbreaks she had received the year before.