Crossword clues for heartrending
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heartrending \Heart"rend`ing\ (-r[e^]nd`[i^]ng), a. Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.
Wiktionary
a. 1 That causes great grief, anguish or distress 2 That elicits deep sympathy alt. 1 That causes great grief, anguish or distress 2 That elicits deep sympathy
WordNet
adj. causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter" [syn: grievous, heartbreaking]
Usage examples of "heartrending".
And in a heartrending gesture of sacrifice he had left behind a beloved wife and girl child when he escaped south, protecting them with a charred, bullet-ridden corpse that he made sure was identified as himself - a hero of China shot and then burned by a roving band of hoodlums in the recent crime wave that had swept through the mainland.
It was heartrending to hear their entreaties without being able to deaden the voice of conscience by taking at least one of them with us.
Judit, for her part, silently blessed the men for leaving all the heartrending pleas for help and healing at the bottom of the heaviest box, where with any luck Acorna would never see them.