heartbreak, heartbreake

Overpowering sorrow or anguish of mind. "Nor years, nor heart - break , nor time's sapping motion." Byron: Heaven and Earth, i. 3. heart-breaker, s . One who or that which breaks the heart; spec if., a lady's curls; a love-lock. "Like Samson's heart - breakers , it grew In time to make a nation rue." Butler: Hudibras, pt. i., c. 1. heart-breaking, a. & s. A. As adj .: Causing overpowering sorrow or anguish of mind; full of or caused by the greatest anguish. fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fall, father; we, wět, hëre, camel, her, thêre; "Heart- breaking tears and melancholy dreams." Words worth: Inscriptions for a Seat. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-1057.png:[blocks in formation] heart-free, a. Words worth: Blind Highland Boy. Unaffected by love, heart-whole. (Tennyson: Maud, I. ii. 11.)