heart·ache

[hahrt-eyk]
noun
emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English hert ache, Old English heort ece; see heart, ache

heart·ach·ing, adjective
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heartache (ˈhɑːtˌeɪk) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
intense anguish or mental suffering

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Heartache is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Word Origin & History

heartache
O.E. in the sense of a physical pain, c.1600 in sense of "anguish of mind;" from heart + ache. O.E. did, however, have heartsarnes "grief," lit. "heart-soreness."
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Example sentences
Usually they are sick for a long time, months of sorrow and heartache.
He emerged wearing an olive suit and white shoes and feeling heartache beneath
  his ever-present smile.
She is surrounded by the heartache of those who show up grappling with the
  oldest of maladies: no money.
It was a tough entrepôt and factory town, wrapped in a pall of soot, struggle
  and heartache.
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