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broken heart

noun

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of broken heart¹

First recorded in 1825–35

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"It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia," her family said in a statement, confirming her death by suicide.

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I have the Monopoly man spray-painting the word “skate” and he’s running away with broken hearts out of the money sack.

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How can a broken heart ever be painless?

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"Loneliness has forced me to return to Romania with a broken heart."

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“He’s there,” she said of her husband, “and we’re here with broken hearts.”

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