broken heart

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noun
  1. devastating sorrow, especially from disappointment in love; heartbreak: When you're young, you think you'll never recover from a broken heart.

Origin of broken heart

1
First recorded in 1825–35

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How to use broken heart in a sentence

  • He will die of a broken heart, and will plead against me at the judgment-seat.

  • Witness his conception, in The broken heart, of a loveless marriage as tantamount to adultery.

    The Fatal Dowry | Philip Massinger
  • Nor did he support exile with dignity; he languished like Cicero when doomed to a similar fate, and died of a broken heart.

  • His parents died within a month of each other—one by the hand of violence, the other of a broken heart.

    Alone | Marion Harland
  • For a moment she thought of suicide, then the reflection that it would be set down to a broken heart arrested her.

    The Nabob | Alphonse Daudet