heartbroken
Use Heartbroken in a sentence
kən adjective
crushed with sorrow or grief.
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heartbroken (ˈhɑːtˌbrəʊkən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| suffering from intense grief | |
| 'heartbrokenly | |
| —adv | |
| 'heartbrokenness | |
| —n | |
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Heartbroken
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| 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. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
Example sentences
Even the scene in which, stubborn and heartbroken, she refuses to yield to her brother's pleas that she change her mind holds up.
These are people who are heartbroken, too, and trying to do their best to support the community in the only way available to them.
We're all heartbroken by the lives that have been lost as a result of these events.
He was the first opera star to be imitated, drunkenly, by legions of joyful or heartbroken football fans.
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